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Is it on San Cristobal?

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First rule of living in a third world country is.


NEVER TRUST THE POLICE.


Ask me how I know.

I'm sure somebody else living in a third world country will chime in and give you some more words of encouragment

No kidding though, be really wise about preserving your personal data such as finances, schedules etc, even with law enforcement.,,hell, especially with law enforcement.

IHTR.

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ETA: OPSEC fail on my part. How did you know where I was?

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In a heartbeat.  I've been eyeing property in Panama for some time now.  Not sure the wife can handle off grid. I have a Panamanian Birth Certificate, so getting citizenship is fairly easy for me.
Are you getting pensionado citizenship?

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good for you...

enjoy the Pura Vida.  internet in the jungle!?  do you have water on your property?

Never been down into panama but somewhere near you are good waves.

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Well I am starting to pack for my return on Friday.  I would like to travel light but alas that is not to be. I will be transporting 16lbs of stainless deck screws, 3 12"saw blades and various drill bits and countersinks.

These screws are superior to anything there, and quite expensive. The wood used for the dock is hard and eats bits and blades, which are also expensive there.

Since I am checking luggage, we decided to take some amusement along. Our underwater metal detector arrived today! That's right boys....I am confident that I will soon locate pirate treasure and cover all of my expenses and then some!

Stay tuned for on the scene updates and pics.

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.... Our underwater metal detector arrived today! That's right boys....I am confident that I will soon locate pirate treasure and cover all of my expenses and then some!

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Alright, I am in the Tri-cities airport vetting ready to fly to Atlanta where I will leave this afternoon and land in Panama City around 9pm. Then we go to an excellent little hostel in the city that areanges all of the transport.

Revilei is at 04:30 tomorrow as the 50 minute flight to Bocas leaves at 06:30. So all in all it is a fairly long journey mainly because of terrible flight schedules.

However, flying from here is a joy and keeps me from an anal probe in Atlanta security. Really these small airports highlight what a farce the TSA is.

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Guys the closing was very smooth. We had zero issues.

This week we started clearing the area that will be our backyard which was a massive impenetrable mass of brush and vine. Our guy worked hard for two days  at $13 a day which was higher than most pay.

There will be many pictures to come! We are shopping materials and supplies as well as a boat now.

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Ferfal: I agree with Hunter 110%. Americans and other people used to 1st world living moving to the 3rd world, it very rarely ends up well and I've known a good share.


Like I said it is good for you to post this stuff. This isn't something for everyone. Allow me to introduce you to a another kind of American.

My family headed to the wilderness those hundreds of years ago for a different life. I am sure to seek an improvement on their current ones. Certainly not for comfort, but for opportunity. Perhaps they even had a sense of adventure too.

Me, I am the guy who risks his life running a rapid, riding a motorcycle everyday, doing a mountain bike trail over my head. Some people like comfort. Some people play it safe. For me that sort of life is unhealthy. My moods get bleak, and I long for that embrace of the world.

I love the jungle, I love the reef. So does my wife. It is as much a part of us as breathing. It's like a religion to a primal need in our souls.

We get locked into our lives as peppers so much that we forget to live. We forget what life can be. It is not supposed to be waiting around for the big one scared to leave the house. I will take my prep per resourcefulness and I will step into a different life and live that adventure. I can't cower in the corner and not try a dream.

Safety and security. A beautiful thing, but not something that the true American spirit can be harnessed with. We have ever been men and women who push forward. Conquerers of of nations and ever curious about what was around the next bend over that ridge.

I have been to 13 countries and have seen third world. They didn't have better satalite and cell phone reception that I do here. They weren't more healthy than the drug afflicted population I am surrounded by. America is not a the utopia that it seems on the surface.

We are falling into a state where our children are taught to be ashamed of success. We are building a society of freeloaders who get paid more to not work than be productive. Still a great nation? To be sure, but a cancerous one. But this diatribe isn't about the faults of one nation or another. It is simply an introduction to an American who says "I see an opportunity" and then grabs life by the balls and does it.

If I were to say, I am taking my wife and we are going to off grid and self reliant in remote Alaska and would be championed a hero. But I am certainly not writing this for any sort of recognition and you wisely council caution before taking a misstep.

I am counciling to those few spirits who feel the pull, and you know who you are. The guys who chose to be grunts, the guys who think adventure is the equivilant of living. I say to you, don't crush your spirit out of fear of the unknown. Because I have news for you...if you are that easily cowed, that unable to adapt and overcome you won't survive a collapse anyway and in the meantime you will never have lived anyway.

I may fail and you guys will be a witness to that failure if it is within my power, but I will have tried and lived life doing it. For those who say what if I lived my dream now, I sincerely hope you never live to say what if I had. Have a plan, be cautious, but don't starve your souls behind your ammo forts.