Thinking of the past, looking toward the future is what this man is doing. As you are deep in the mountains of the continental divide you have to walk or take a horse to get there, your 4x4 is useless. This pensive gentleman is a farmer looking down on some of his land. This is a tough place to make living and he has sold his land to a gringo who will develop it. He is getting a good price for his land. He says his children will go to the university with the money. His teenage daughter is especially bright and she plans to go to medical school. As for him, he will buy a better piece of land and continue farming, but his children come first. Like so many of us, we make sacrifices so that our children will move forward and succeed.
Before people arrive and look around for themselves, they think only of palm trees when they think of Panama. We have plenty of palm trees, but they are only one variety of many. The photo on the left was taken near La Pintada in Cocle province in central Panama and provides two examples, plus a very nice view of one of our many mountains.
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