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Episode 30: Want to Know My Solution to the Polar Vortex?

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Back to Panama! Five years ago, I wrote an article titled How I Survived the Polar Vortex. That was when I lived in Panama full time, but escaping the recent frigid temperatures in the US is a pretty nice thing to do right now! This episode was recorded a few days before I left the US to revisit Panama, where I'll stay until mid-March. I'm writing these show notes today from my lovely accommodation on the beach on the Azuero Peninsula. (When we recorded it the episode, I was home in …

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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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How I Survived the Polar Vortex

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It's early January, 2014, and while the New Year brings sunshine and skin-caressing warmth to Anywhereists like us, family and friends are freezing their bippies. This horrendous cold snap is now known as the Polar or Arctic Vortex. My oldest son, who lives in Vermont, found thick ice coating everything when he arrived home after Christmas. It took them nearly two days to get the ice off their cars and get the driveway cleared. In Toronto, tens of thousands of residents were without power for …

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