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Saturday Night Sundown In Paradise

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Jan 18, 2009
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We pulled up to the little beachside cantina just as the sun, fire red, was beginning its descent for the day. A small boy, 5 or 6, was sitting across the way from the bar, alongside a palm tree, at the edge of the earth, where it fell straight off down to the sea, watching the start of the sunset all by himself.

We joined him. As the sun slid farther down, the blue sky turned orange and yellow and rose and red. Beneath where we stood amidst the palm trees, the water came slowly onto the sand and then receded again. It was the Pacific Ocean, but you could have mistaken it for the Caribbean Sea, it lapped so gently.

Others joined us. A little girl with a dog. Three teenagers. A young couple holding hands…

Meantime, one of our party offered to head up to the bar.

“What will everyone have to drink?” asked Robert.

“Rum and Coke…Balboa…Atlas…rum and Coke…”

A few minutes later, Robert returned:

“They have two Pepsis, Balboa beer, and seco. That’s all”

“No rum?”

“Don’t they have Atlas beer?”

“Do they have water?”

“They have two Pepsis, Balboa beer, and seco,” Robert said again. Then he threw his arms up into the air and walked away from the crowd.

When he returned, he carried two Pepsis, six Balboa beers, and a big bottle of seco. Plus cups.

We mixed secos and Pepsi, passed around the beers, then turned again to watch the sun finish its show for the day. She had a crowd. The cliff’s edge where we stood was lined now with sunset-watchers.

Behind us, suddenly, Latin music pounded from a half-dozen speakers above the wooden bar.

We’d been directed to this beachside catina outside the village of Mariato on the western coast of Panama’s Veraguas province by the grocery store keeper in town. We were the only gringos in the place.

While the locals were gearing up for their payday weekend Saturday night, we non-locals were winding down, tired and sunburned, after a long, dirty day spent hiking the hills of Lief’s Los Islotes development, searching out the recently placed wooden stakes and trying to match them to the lot plan.

When the sun was out of sight altogether, we climbed into our vehicles for the rest of the drive back to Santiago.

Leaving the Panamanians to continue their Saturday night beachside fun.

Kathleen Peddicord

P.S. We’re in Santiago, in Veraguas province, at the head of the western Azuero Peninsula. This is a part of the country we began paying attention to but two-and-a-half years ago. The changes, even since then, have been great. The little La Hacienda hotel where we like to stay has expanded its capacity by 33%, adding 15 new rooms over the past 18 months.

Today, in its bar and restaurant, you hear English spoken by maybe half the guests. “Used to be,” our friend David, traveling with us this weekend, remarked yesterday, “we were the only English-speakers in the place when we’d come here…”

Big houses are being built here and there, new beach and mountain developments are being launched every second month, and the rumor that Mel Gibson has invested in a sizable piece of land in this part of the country, where he intends to build a resort hotel with all the trimmings, have been confirmed.

The get-in-early phase is passing.

 

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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