After Costa Rica Louise and I headed to the town of Boquete. It has been deemed a retirement haven – voted the world's best place to retire by many publications and has been forefront on the expat radar for a number of years. Panama’s very generous 'Pensionada" program allows for expats who have a small minimum guaranteed income to apply for a special status which grants them the ability to live in Panama full time, and receive the benefits o...

hi everybody - quick check in. I am writing this from the lobby of a hotel in david panama - near the costa rica border (1.5 hours) kind of stuck here for a few hours as we thought we could take a early morning bus to costa rica but ...got up real early, off to the station to get the 8 am bus.....already sold out so here we sit waiting for the noon bus - takes about 9 hours to san jose which I hope includes the reputed two to three hours walking back and forth ...