Panama Update #100
December 16, 2008
This is the 100th entry to the blog since leaving Minneapolis on July 10, 2008. If anyone ever has any comments about the blog, feel free to write me at my email address, since it cannot be posted directly.
I am writing today from San Francisco. We arrived at the downtown City Center Hostel at about 10:00 PM last night. We left for the airport in Panama at about 4:00 AM yesterday morning. It took about 18 hours to get here, including time waiting at the airport in Panama City and Miami. We had a 5 hour layover in Miami and the flight left an hour late. It is more than 6 hours flying time from Miami to SF. On the flight to Miami we were given seats right next to the bathroom, but found some empty seats and moved away a bit. We sat next to a Jewish woman from Panama who told us about the community there and wants to have us over some time. She told us about the popular Rabbi in Panama who had recently passed away after serving the community for the last 60 years. She said his son plans to take over. She has a place in both Miami and Panama.
Today in SF I had a bunch of errands to do and will continue on more tasks for the next couple of days while Nikki is busy at the conference. I accomplished more today walking around than I could in about 2 months in Panama with a lot of taxi rides. The place we are staying is very convenient to a lot of restaurants and stores that are on streets called Geary, Larkin, Polk, and California. I found a Best Buy and got a new wireless card, a tea shop that has exotic teas in bulk, a Whole Foods, a shoe repair, a drug store, a hardware store, a post office, and a bookstore. I had Thai food for lunch and we found a great Indian restaurant for dinner. We have plans to go to a vegetarian Chinese in the area and another in Chinatown, along with an Ethiopian restaurant if the timing works out.
