May 26 to June 6, 2013

We still have a few items in storage that need to be put in boxes and logged and we hope to finish that tomorrow or Monday. We worked on it yesterday and decided to take today off to catch up on other things at the hotel.

Greg went out to buy some more boxes and to get a haircut. He called saying he had just been in an accident. Some guy rear ended our rental car at a stoplight. Greg is fine and the rental car isn’t in too bad of shape, but the other guys’ front end is pretty messed up and he needed to be towed. He has insurance despite him telling Greg “I have cash”. He was acting so nervous/excited when the police were there that they searched his car. Greg said that if his car had been drivable he probably would have hit and run.

We have finished all but very last minute stuff for storage. We finally heard back from the shipping company with a quote, now we just need to find out how soon they can pick it up. Then, we can make our plane reservations and book a place to stay.

Not sure where the time goes, but it seems all of these errands can while away a day. We still need to get at least 5 passport pictures each to take with us, and get a couple more sets of my fingerprints to take with us “just in case” the FBI rejects the last ones we sent too.

Well, things are winding down here. We finally got a pickup date for our items in storage. We meet them tomorrow, May 6. We leave for Panama this Saturday. We have booked a villa in Coronado (about an hour out of the city) that is very near the beach. They are Las Bougainvilleas Villas, near Playa Serena in Coronado. www.panamamundo.com

We booked for 1 month, but if we find it meets our needs we can stay longer until we find a place to stay long term. We are staying in the Las Palmas villa.

It’s now Thursday night and the pickup of our stuff at storage went well. All we need to do is some last minute laundry tomorrow and finish a bit of packing. We are allowed 2 checked pieces of luggage each on Copa.

The tropical storm is causing some rain and has been windy all day. Since we got back from the cruise, it’s been cloudy and or rainy every day.

I’ll post again after we get settled in Panama!

 

Oh....I also have uploaded more pictures from the world cruise from Guam to Beijing. I am working on Hong Kong now!