Tropical Dreaming

I’m happy to announce that we’ve made arrangements to stay at Coronado Villa Victoria indefinitely, on a month-to-month basis, until we buy a house.

The owner (Tay) has been extremely gracious throughout our multiple stays and she’s been super easy to work with whenever there’s any sort of problem. The house has nearly everything we want—the pool, the fenced-in yard, air-conditioning, safe neighborhood—and is, in general, quite comfortable for us (apart from the cold showers - more on that below) and has basically felt like home for some time. The long term rent that we worked out is very fair and reasonable.

Krista is a little conflicted about it (there’s still a lot of Panama that we haven’t seen yet) but the nomadic lifestyle has had some real drawbacks and creates a lot of stress. Plus, the Coronado/San Carlos area has absolutely everything we’re looking for so we don’t want to get too caught up in “grass is greener syndrome”.

This new living arrangement means a couple of important things…

1. We’re no longer restricted by the cargo capacity of our car (and we long ago passed the point of too much stuff to move in one trip ergo any move needs to be no more than a couple hours away)
2. We can buy things that we’ve been putting off (see #1) like a good food processor and a surround sound system to go with our projector and screen.
3. We’re guest ready! Or at least we will be soon…

The fix for the cold showers situation will be to buy or order an inexpensive tankless/instant hot water heater. They actually have ones that are built into the shower head - which would make for the easiest installation and subsequent removal. The last place we stayed had one and while it looked kinda scary having electrical wire and exposed wire nuts in such close proximity to the shower head, it actually worked well.