Panama Update #47
September 14, 2008
The pictures on the previous page were all taken on Nikki's research adventure in the Kuna Yala/San Blas region. She took a lot of pictures. All of them were nice but she picked several to put on my memory stick before she took off. She has a lot of stories about her experiences there on the boat, and the geology, and meeting the indigenous people, but did not get a chance to give them to me yet for the blog.
Nikki left at 5:oo AM today to catch her flight back to the research vessel in the San Blas/Kuna Yala region. Since I was up anyway to see her off I went for my morning walk earlier than usual. It was still dark, since the sun does not rise until about 6:00 AM. I was going to walk to the top of the hill that we live on to see the sunrise but only got about 3/4 of the way up. The gate to the park was locked, so it must open a little later.
In the morning on Sundays I like to find a place that has internet access and listen to the sports shows from Minneapolis. It is a fun season to follow the Twins baseball team. They are tied for the division lead with the Chicago White Sox with only about 15 games to go. If they make the playoffs I am sure it will be on TV here. They are pretty big baseball fans. Later on today I will probably go to a movie with some people from the dorm.
Yesterday we looked at an apartment that is only about a 3 minute walk from where we live now. We know the person who lives there now and he is thinking about moving out soon. He has another place in mind but hasn't signed a lease yet because he has had trouble getting a hold of the owner of that place. If he does figure it out and move, we are interested in the apartment that he is moving out from. Hopefully it will get sorted out in the next week or two. We took a couple of hours yesterday to look at the apartment while Nikki was in town. It is a 4-plex in a large wooden house of the style that is very common here. The street level is for parking and he lives on both levels of one side with his family and rents out the apartments on the other side. If we end up moving there, I can post some pictures which will describe it better. We like the owner and met with him briefly and we agreed to a price and what it will cover, so now we just have to wait to see if the other apartment works out for our friend. It is in a nice neighborhood and still within walking distance of Nikki's work at a fairly reasonable price. It is rare to find one like that in this neighborhood.
