Final Days

Tonight is our last night in Boquete. Tomorrow we go down to suffer one more day in David, before heading home on Thursday. I have had an amazing time here. So much so that we are planning on coming back out in a few months, and possibly looking at a business venture here that we can run from the states, and come to town a couple times a year.

While here it has shown us a different way of life. In the past few months we had already shifted our way of thinking… getting away from the commercial aspect of buy buy buy… and instead simplifying our life and getting rid of things we do not need. It’s too easy in America to be a property/asset greedy person, when in fact to have a quality life, you really do not need all those THINGS. Now coming here has brought that idea even closer to home. People here only buy things when they need them, not just because they want them. They tend to only want things they really need, and most times they just make do with what they have. Most Panamanians live on $10 a day income and have a decent quality of life! Quite different to what we come to expect in the U.S.

Another thing I noticed the other day… there was a power outage in the entire town for about 20 hours. I sat here going through technology withdrawals! I was bored! Isn’t it funny that as kids we used to go out and play for hours with nothing, that if the power went out it wouldn’t have affected us at all! But now we have gotten so used to having all the gizmos and gadgets that we don’t know what to do with ourselves when we can’t use them! After sitting here being bored for an hour, I decided to do something about it. We lit the kerosene hurricane lamps and sat at the table playing dominos by the lamp light. We also read books! Yes, books… in case you don’t remember what those are… they are tons of pages bound together and filled with words! Many of you probably haven’t read a book in quite a while… so many people read online or only read magazines. It was quite nice to sit there for a couple hours and relax and read! (I say all this tongue in cheek because I do love to read) So what was the last book that you read? I am in the middle of a strange but good mystery/thriller John Connolly The Killing Kind.

Next time I write I will be back in sweltering Phoenix… ready for all the summer pool parties in the hot weather!

Faith xoxo