All the planned worked....almost

So here I sit in our little house in San Carlos Panama after three long days of travel. We drove a rented van from Aromas to LAX so we could carry all our stuff and still not have a car on the departure end. So we saw friends along the way, spent 2 hours at the shippers location to get both Grayson the dog and some boxes of goods shipped down. And did I mention it was 95 F that day. Anyway we also rendevoused with a friend, Pam Hillman, who landed at LAX a few hours before our flight and had a fast talk and hug before she went home. Then we had to wait until 2:00 am before we left on the flight.

At the Panama City end all our luggage was on the carosel before we were through Immigration. But getting Grayson bailed out cost another hour and some bucks! Our property manager met us at the gate and had driven our car so we could fit all the baggage .

So here we were sleep deprived with a car full of baggage, a freaked out dog and a cat asleep on the floor driving through Panama City. We only missed one turn and got across the bridge pretty smoothly. The two bridges across the canal are the point where driving becomes very relaxed compared to the city and we whizzed home in what seemed like a very long hour.

Getting to our little house was a joy.....until we unlocked and learned that the power had been turned off. Linda melted down and I was pretty hot myself. That meant there was no AC or even fans and, or course, no lights. As a result we move to a hotel that night, paid by our apoligitic tenant.

So today was much better. I am writing you on a DSL connection in an air conditoned room after going to the beach twice, having a $12 Chinese dinner across the street and ice cream cones for dessert.

The image I have for the first day was a hummingbird that crossed my path. It was so irridescent green it seemed made of electric silk. I could not help but thinging this little bird had likely flown all the way from somewhere far north and had none of the trials we did in getting there. Yeah it is more of life and death journey for hummingbird!

Now I gotta sleep