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One of the big reasons we landed on Panama as our relocation destination is because of schooling. We had entertained a handful of other countries, but one of the linchpins in all our decisions was the cost of international schooling. A lot of the countries we looked at only offered public schooling to natural-born citizens.Continue reading “To School or Not To School”

I’m trying to buy a car. Està necesito. It has been my top priority for a week now, and lemme tell you what: it sucks. As it turns out, Panama is not interested in making vehicles easy to purchase. There are reasons that they have, but I am not interested in understanding. Only driving myselfContinue reading ““Car Buying” or “Frugal? HA!””

One question I get asked all the time is “Why are you moving?”, and to be honest there are a ton of reasons. I would first like to tell you about our life in America before I get into why we decided to uproot our family and move to Central America.  Let me start byContinue reading “The Why, Part 1”

Every night my wife and I go for walktails. A new tradition. This is a walk with a cocktail, voila. Our latest has been tequila in pineapple guava juice. This shit is great. I promise. We walk until we are halfway though our drink or so, then come back. I say we do this everyContinue reading “Walktails”

Starting life in another area is all about the little wins. You start out with almost no wins, and you work up from there. Every day, you try to get just another win or two among all of your failures. Things like getting a pin set up on your ATM card can be monumental tasksContinue reading “The Little Wins”

Saying Goodbye wasn’t easy, for sure. With some people you would think, “was that the last time I will ever see them again?” With others, you could be confident it wasn’t, but still really sad at the lost time and proximity. Some friends didn’t get an obligatory hug and official “goodbye”. With our friend JoshContinue reading “Lots of Tiers”

We arrived at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, Panama at 6:30 in the morning.  I hadn’t slept in a day and a half.  This was the culmination of the greater part of a lifetime of wanting to move overseas.  We finally did it.  And man, did I feel some things: excited for ourContinue reading “Simple Math”