Another Olympic Sport For Panamá?

 
Just as Africans have dominated long-distance running for so many years, since their major form of transportation is their legs, so do Panamanians, especially here in Chiriquí, use small bicycles to get around, and on this hilly-to-mountainous terrain.  I’ve been indulging myself in looking through the different galleries of pictures from Beijing, and the ones [...]

A Wonderful Sight

 
Not fifteen minutes ago, we were just delighted with the sight of a huge flock–20-30 at least–of crested oropendolas, working their way from the jungle in back of the house through the grove of trees on either side of the gates.
These are large (about 13″), dark-bodied birds, but with brilliant yellow tails and yellow bills. [...]

New Immigration Rules

Since I think half the world’s population reads Don Ray’s Chiriquí Chatter, this is probably completely unnecessary, but I do want to emphasize that there are new immigration rules, and that Don Ray has a link to them in his post of yesterday.  I’d read them in Spanish (those sections that applied) but had no [...]