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World’s Best Weekend Escape

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
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I admit it. Panama City gets to me.

It’s hot. Sticky. Unbelievably noisy. The digging and blasting commence about 6:30 a.m., and the heartiest party-goers on the balconies surrounding ours sometimes don’t call it a night until after 3 a.m. That doesn’t leave a lot of undisturbed sleeping hours.

Every weekend we’re able, therefore, we throw our swimsuits in a bag, picnic-makings in a cooler, and we beat it out of town, across the Bridge of the Americas, speeding west on the Pan American Highway. We turn left at Santiago, in Veraguas, at the head of the Azuero Peninsula, and we follow that road nearly to its end.

Here, on the edge of nowhere, we unpack our picnic on the sand.

Jack swims in the cove, where the waters of the Pacific are calmed and warmed. Harry hikes the low hills of the island just offshore that you can reach on foot when the tide is out. Lief scouts building sites.

I sit on the beach, watching them all, waiting for them all to make their way back to me (and the cooler) when they’re hungry or thirsty or tired…

We listen to the monkeys. Chase the crabs. Stalk the pelicans.

Just before sundown, we repack the SUV and head north a few miles to Torio. Here, we join the handful of other escape artists who’ve likewise made their ways to this outpost of civilization for a couple of days of peace and quiet. We gather on the patio of Robby’s cabanas for home-cooked, fresh-caught seafood and salsa. We sip Aubuelo rum and Balboa beer and tell tall tales of our day’s adventures that sometimes in fact resemble our day’s adventures.

We say good-night to the caimans (there are two living in Robby’s pond) and to each other and adjourn to the rustic cabanas Robby rents for about US$25 a night (including air conditioning and, a recent addition, hot water).

We fall asleep by 10, and we sleep undisturbed until the sun wakes us.

Kathleen Peddicord

P.S. Robby’s website is here: www.Torioresort.com.

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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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