We would stop here on our daily walk and watch the tide, the sea birds and the occasional fisherman. Near low tide in this picture. At high tide all the sand and rocks in the foreground are covered in water.
Flowers fall off the trees and sometimes make beautiful patterns on the street or sidewalk
We were lucky enough to have a first class chef living in a floor just below us. Their business would deliver to other residents in the building.
These are the guys we lived with for the better part of eight months in Panama City. They are both accomplished property managers. They take care of three large high rise buildings. Juan Carlos just graduated with a degree in, I believe, something like structural engineering. Jacob has great skills in interior design and project planning.
The top part of one of the most famous buildings in Panama City. The F and F Tower. 53 story office building.
About every other week we would use the internet to either Skype or Zoom with our daughter Maya and our grandson Jude near Boston, Massachusetts.
Once we were allowed to leave the apartment we made a trip to the Fish Market where the catch of the day can be purchased.
As the pandemic lock down started to ease up, we made it to the fish market where fishermen bring in their catch and sell it to the public.
Our first trip to a beach in about six months. This is on the Pacific side, where at low tide we could walk out over half a mile on a sand bar.
Same location with masks.
Here we dropped our masks for a moment to take a picture. We are out on a long split into the ocean made from earth removed when making the Panama Canal.
Lots of boats harbored here with the Panama City modern skyline in the background. See the F & F Building near the right edge?
We took on the task of picking up trash along the nearly 5 miles of streets that we walked every morning. We filled more than a dozen big trash bags and even more smaller bags.
During the pandemic we were only allowed to walk to the grocery store. This is our 5 mile route to the grocery store. We got the trash picked up on almost 4 miles of this route before we moved to the mountains.
You have to pay a lot of attention to where you step next to the streets in Panama City, Panama. There are occasionally holes like this that drop down six feet or more. Someone has put a branch down this one with light colored trash on it to help people see this one.
On one of our last walks through the neighborhood, this huge bird came to sit above us on the road. Probably a Scarlet Macaw.
We saw this statue behind the church being prepared to be carried through the streets on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The neighborhood of Panama City we lived in was called San Francisco. I don’t know why there was a scull at his feet.
For my birthday, OM Catering surprised me with this small carrot cake. I love carrot cake.
One of our favorite dishes from OM Catering in our building. This is vegetable fried rice with egg.
So many beautiful blossoms here. Charlotte has taken dozens of pictures of the flowers here.
Real interesting colors on these leafs.
The yellow-headed caracara is one of the most common large birds in Panama City. This one, with its made just a couple feet behind it, was on the top of our building.
So many interesting plants.
Very few indicators that there was an election going on in the USA, but we did see this one car sticker.
This coffee shop is similar to Starbucks. About four miles into our daily walk we would usually stop and get a vanilla frappe.
This is the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. The bridge is part of the Pan American Highway – the Bridge of the Americas. The ship is one of those vessels that carry about 7,000 new vehicles from Asia.
This is a very old truck we walked by every day.
We took this picture from our bedroom window. This is a tower built about 500 years ago as part of the original village of Panama City. The park to get right to it was closed for the pandemic the entire time we were in Panama City.
We lived with two Persian cats in Panama City. Jean and Jan. Jean here loved to get on the table to eat with us – or rather watch us eat. Here we are doing silent me-awes to each other.
Here we are celebrating Charlott’e 76th birthday on August 12th, 2020 on the roof of our high rise.
On one of our last nights in Panama City we took Jacob and Juan Carlos out to eat in the old town 103 steps up to the roof dining area. Salvaje Restaurante.
On the back row, left are Jacob and Juan Carlos and their cats. They are here with their brothers and sisters and spouses and Jacob’s mother. A beautiful family.