Waiting for a Beach Volleyball Game: New Basketball Purchased (No Volleyballs Available) just before the Coronavirus Lockdown. Coronado, Panama

Sailors and employees in the Vista Mar Marina (Panama) are healthy and safe. We are grateful for it. We have been following the Panamanian Movement Restrictions. It started with:

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“Practice as if my life is depended on it.“

Meditation Practice, Vista Mar Marina, San Carlos, Panama
Melanie is from Germany on S/V Tore, She and her husband took two years of sabbatical from work in order to sail around the world. They need to go back to work by November but no one knows when we can sail again.

Before flying to Panama, living in Fort Lauderdale, I attended Tai Chi classes at the Broward Wellness Center (Broward General Hospital). I found it takes a long time to learn Tai Chi.

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COVID19 Movement Restrictions in Panama
(Women on Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays, Men on Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays)

Effective April 1, 2020, new movement restrictions will begin in Panama. Both Women and Men are allowed to go for essential shopping on separate days. On Sundays, everyone must stay home. Designated movement times are depending on the last digit of your Identification Card (National ID or Passport). People 60 and over are only allowed between the hours of 11 am to 1 pm. John’s passport number ends with “5”. He is allowed to go shopping between the hours of 4:30 pm and 6:30 pm.

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What can I do to make my day bright? Is it avoiding listening to the media?

I have watched so many YouTube videos in the last two weeks, more than I have watched in my whole life prior to this “Coronavirus Pandemic”. I did learn a lot, and found some really crazy and interesting things that I didn’t care much about but were pretty funny and silly at the same time. We are fortunate that we arrived in a Marina with decent WiFi speed. There are other marinas that we have been in that we either had to use a Simcard tethering a phone or even worse walking up to the office and sitting in the sun to a internet connection.

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Panama City View from Hotel Swimming Pool in Old Town Panama City, Panama

Since my last blog, we have been very busy. We crossed the Panama Canal from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean. It was a lot of work preparing for the Canal Transit. Crossing the canal was a huge experience. We cheerfully toasted the success of the crossing.

After arriving in the Pacific side of Panama, I went home in Florida and sold my condo. I got rid of most of belongings and put the rest of my history in a small storage room (200 Cubic Feet).

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