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How to Cope When a Travel Injury Interrupts Your Plans

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What do you do when your delightful location-independent arrangements are interrupted by illness or a travel injury? I found out the hard way on my recent Panama trip. In early February, I spent a delightful week traveling around Chiriqui Province in Panama with Jackie Lange and her Panama Relocation Tours bus. I was seeing what I wanted to see, in the company of interesting and enthusiastic people. But my plans for my time in Panama were suddenly, seriously derailed. I left the …

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How I Survived the 2019 Polar Vortex

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While friends and family were in the grip of record-breaking winter cold during the 2019 polar votex, I was basking in the sun and sea breezes on Panama's Azuero peninsula. (That's a picture of the beach - crowded because it was a Sunday! - where I stayed.) If you listened to the latest Anywhereist Podcast (and if you haven't, why not???), you heard my concerns about the difficulties of getting from Panama City to where I planned to stay. You see, I arrived in Panama in the midst of the World …

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5 Unexpected Benefits when You Join a Panama Relocation Tours Adventure

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Despite previously living in Las Tablas, Panama for several years, I recently found myself on a Panama Relocation Tour. In late January, I flew to Panama because I decided I didn't want to deal with winter this year. I survived my arrival during the Papal visit and the World Youth Conference, and settled in at my home away from home in Guarare. I spent a couple of weeks enjoying the sun and the ocean (and wallowing in Vacation Brain, truth be told). On the 10th I met up with Jackie …

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