Portable Parents Blog

Our family are big fans of pizza!  What family isn’t right?  Well, we always make a point of finding a pizza shop in the towns we visit, and try the local flavors.
Surprisingly, or not, there are some pretty good pizza’s in Latin America that certainly beat the U.S. national pizza chains.  We do see big...

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We have already taken 10’s of thousands of photos and I have kept maybe 30% of these.  Just the process of managing our photos has turned into quite the project.  I was working on these yesterday and thought I would post some of my favorite of the kids and Gina…maybe one or two of the...

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What we know as Panama City today is actually the 3rd city built in the past 500 years. The original city was settled by the Spanish in 1519, northeast of the current city. It was destroyed by the pirate Henry Morgan in 1671. There are still some ruins visible where the original...

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The primary reason for “stopping” in Panama was to visit the Canal and see it operating first hand. It is an amazing testament to mans ingenuity and creativity, both things good and bad.
For the past 12 years I was involved in the import of many food products and the Panama Canal was a route...

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Culebra Island is one of 4 islands at the Pacific entrance to the Panama canal. At one time these islands were a very strategic military base, the U.S. established them as Fort Grant to guard the southern entrance to the canal. Between 1913 and WWII the U.S. made Fort Grant into the most...

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While Americans were heading to the polls to vote for their 44th president, Panamanians had already begun celebrating. They were not celebrating the victory of Barack Obama as the next U.S. president, but their own independence.
We left Costa Rica for Panama yesterday. Our visit will be short, a week to visit Panama City...

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