sduford on Nov 02 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
There’s been more progress on the bohio, the pool, the pathway, and the roofs. Things are now obviously behind schedule though. The guest house was supposed to be ready in September, then October, and now looks like it is at least a month away from completion. The whole project was supposed to be done by [...]
sduford on Oct 25 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
They’ve been working mostly on the bohio these last few days. You can see the progression here.
sduford on Oct 09 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
I just received some new pictures from our consruction site and now most of the pool and roof lines are in place, so we can really start to get a feel for the design. They are now getting ready to pour the upper floor of the bohio too, which is pretty much the last major [...]
sduford on Jul 24 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
There has been some heavy afternoon downpours lately in Panama, which has somewhat impeded progress. I was expecting the guest house to have a roof on it by now, but I think they are waiting to do all the roofs at the same time. The roofs need a welded steel-beam structure, covered by corrugated steel, [...]
sduford on Apr 27 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
I got a few more pictures and a bit of excitement this week. I have someone watching over my project and last week he noticed that the kitchen window opening was completely wrong. It was both too small and in the wrong place!
But I’m more and more impressed with my builder, Eleuterio Gutiérrez. Jim noticed [...]
sduford on Feb 18 2008 | Filed under: Panama
Here’s a nice article on Panama and Altos del Maria:
Low-Cost Living
sduford on Feb 17 2008 | Filed under: Panama, Travel
Having just yesterday left a Canada in the midst of one of the worst winters on record, it is a very nice feeling to wakeup on a warm sunny morning in the beautiful and lush mountains of Altos del Maria. Looks like it will be a nice day, and we plan to chill-out by the [...]
sduford on Feb 05 2008 | Filed under: Panama
Over the weekend I discovered a new website called Ning. It is a new twist on social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook. Rather then being one huge social network, it enables you to easily create your very own more focussed social network.
So as an experiment, I decided to try it out by creating a [...]
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