The Land of Plenty

I have complained vociferously over the past year about how hard it is to get certain things...most of the time impossible to get them.

This is not entirely accurate.

As we are finding out, many things are available, but it is a real scavenger hunt to find them.

There are no Yellow Pages, there is no MLS system for real estate, there are no house numbers or addresses on buildings, and, of course, there is the language problem.

All in all, it is near impossible to find things.

The only way is to talk to someone who has RECENTLY found the same thing. Hopefully, they can give you directions by landmarks to the location.

This is tricky! I am constantly driving around memorizing landmarks so I can tell someone else how to find it.

We have heard about or found some good stuff. I found the bicycle shop, and we heard of a new young lady MD right in Boquete that charges $5 a visit.

Plus when you find it, normally it is cheap. Yella and I went to a medical lab yesterday and got a complete work up for a thorough physical for $102...for both. And, the blood letting tech was better than anyone if been too! The results were ready in 2 hours!

On the down side, finding simple things can drive you nuts!

I have been looking for a highlighter. I need it to mark my lines in the play. As we are rehearsing, moving around on stage, reciting lines, it is hard to know where you are unless your lines are highlighted.

Yesterday, it went to 4 stores with no luck. I did know that I could go all the way to David to PriceMart and buy a case of 144 highlighters but give me a break!

Finally I remembered a school supply store way off the beaten path. They had them.

It is the little things that drive you nuts!

On to another subject...

Our road from the highway to our farm lane has been patched! No more potholes. These were potholes on steroids and thousands of them in a 4 kilometer stretch. Bad roads are something that you put up with here.

What a joy to have a functional road!

Now, don't get the wrong idea. These are ROUGH patches...we still have to keep our speed down to about 20 miles per hour but who cares! Dodging the potholes reduced our speed to 5 miles an hour and less.

I have to leave now. Yella is having the girls over. I have been bansished out of the house.

I going out to see what trouble I can get into...