Yesterday I spent most of the cold January day indoors working upstairs in the combination office/craft/sewing room. Like so many other people I am trying to organize my home this month. The hot trend right now is the Japanese method of tidying up. The KonMari method believes that you should hold each item in your hands and if it does not “Spark Joy” then you should get rid of it. If the author, Marie Kondo, ever came into this space to assist me in organizing she might run screaming out of the ... View the Post
Cruising the Panama Canal
Cruising the Panama Canal is an amazing combination of ingenuity, engineering, and sheer mastery. Cruising the Panama Canal I recommend that you first start with a visit to the Panama Canal Miraflores Visitor’s Center. The three-story center has a museum and theater so that you can understand the history of how the Canal was created and how it operates. In a nutshell, because of the difference in water levels between Gatun Lake and the two oceans a boat/ship must be lifted or lowered ... View the Post
Gamboa Rain Forest
Today's post is about the Gamboa Rain Forest. Several of you wondered why we chose to visit Panama. Mr. Decor was actually born and raised there. His great grandmother, Myrtle Gunn, was widowed in 1913. She was still in her early 30’s and had children to support. She heard from a cousin that jobs for women were available in the Canal Administrative Offices during the construction of the Panama Canal. Brave women that she was she packed up, left Americus, Georgia and made a life for herself and ... View the Post
Summit Gardens Parque Municipal Summit
One of my favorite activities involved the great outdoors. It was visiting Summit Gardens Parque Municipal Summit in Panama. Summit Gardens Parque Municipal Summit Summit Gardens was created in 1923 by the U.S. (as a division of the Panama Canal Project). It was an Experimental Farm Summit to test the adaptation of plant species from different parts of the world to the tropical climate of Panama. During the 1960s a small zoo was started within the botanical garden. The zoo increased ... View the Post
Iglesia de San Jose Church of Saint Joseph
Iglesia de San Jose Church of Saint Joseph might probably be the church I enjoyed the most while visiting Panama. Iglesia de San Jose Church of Saint Joseph The church is quite famous for two reasons. The first is that the church contains an ornate altar. It is made of mahogany, carved in the Baroque style, and covered in gold leaf. It is illuminated only by a skylight. The second reason is that it survived pirate Henry Morgan’s sacking of Casco Viejo (Panamá City’s historical ... View the Post
The Wonderful Foods of Panama
I don’t think I had one bad meal while we were visiting Panama. It was all just fantastic! This post will cover The Wonderful Foods of Panama. The Wonderful Foods of Panama First and foremost, if you are a seafood lover then you are in for a treat. As Panama is an isthmus (a narrow strip of land with sea on either side) there is some of the best seafood in the world located there. I am a seafood nut and ate as much of it as I could. This was a seafood and rice dish from Mundi’s on ... View the Post
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