Day 9: The Beach House

Post from Tim:

Off to the beach. Gordon, Antonio, Michelle, and I packed into a 4x4 with a ton of groceries and a dog. One and a half hours later, we arrive.

Through the front gates stands the house we will stay in for the next week. Two stories of white Panamanian concrete topped with a corrugated metal roof and floored with red tile. Hammocks stretch lazily between the posts of the wrap-around porch. Tropical plants grow everywhere. Mango trees in peak season drop ripe fruit across the yard. A background palm tree provides a ripe coconut for our coconut-rice dinner. Mamon fruit provides something fun to nibble on at any time of day. A live-in cook/gardener/maid named Santiago makes the leisure-class lifestyle whole.

We relax here day after day - reading books, writing, painting, talking, sleeping, eating, tanning, drinking wine, and playing cards. (You notice, cleaning and cooking are not on this list!) We've been here four days and it feels like two. We could stay here a few weeks without a problem.

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