August 26 - Sept 7, 2014 Nashville, TN and Martha's Vineyard, MA
Lief and Kathleen of Live and Invest Overseas and the developers of our new home in Los Islotes offered us a chance to work at their Retire Overseas Conference in Nashville, TN. They hold conferences all over the world to help people learn about how to become an expat as well as how to diversify assets overseas. Once a year they hold a conference in the states where they present sessions on their top retirement havens around the world. This year there were 21 countries represented and we were there to promote Los Islotes and talk about our new expat life. It was great fun. Nashville is a great city and we met so many fantastic people now considering a new life abroad. We also participated in a panel called "What to Expect when you're Expating" where we got to tell funny stories about our first six months in Panama.
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| We got to wear grown up clothes and everything |
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| What to Expect When You Are Expating |
Since the trip to Nashville was paid for; we decided to add on a few days and head up to Martha's Vineyard to see Peg's mom for a few days. We hadn't seen her in over a year and weren't sure when the next opportunity would come up. We had a great visit with perfect MA weather, plenty of trips to the beach and lots of time catching up with the family. Mom treated to us to our favorite lobster dinner surrounded by family and friends. It was a great visit.
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| Martha's Vineyard - no place like it |
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| A cute visitor to the porch - so glad Zoe and Calcite were not here |
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| Thanks Uncle Richard! |
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| Bathing Beauties - Too Cold for me |
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| Like mother like daughter - two beautiful women |
On our way through Panama City we met with our architect again to finalize the preliminary house plans. It was a great meeting, and the now the plans are ready for the engineering department.
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| The rear elevation of our house. Your guest quarters are in the bottom right hand corner. |
We were a little worried that our time in the states would make us question our move to Central America, but it didn't happen. While it was nice having the creature comforts of the states: television in English; no chickens anywhere, ever; being able to ask for directions and understand the answer etc. we were ready to come home at the end of the trip. Glorys and family took great care of the fur-kids and they didn't seem to miss us at all. Hopefully next trip will be to Austin to see the non-fur-kids.
