With Mery Palma, the owner of the Mery Palma gallery at the Sheraton Hotel in Panama City. She handles my paintings of Panama. She once told me that I spoke Spanish "como un maliante", like a street thug. I guess it was a compliment.

At the Blvd restaurant  at the Albrook Mall in Panama City. On my ipad is a painting I did of him last year. Apparently the rest of the kitchen staff agreed that was indeed him after some good natured teasing and arguing. I printed it out for him. He said he liked the painting. Felt pretty cool to be honest.

My second visit to the Panama Ports in Balboa with my host, Juan Antonio Sucre (buena gente). We've discussed doing a series of paintings of the Ports and ships similar in style to the paintings I'm doing for the Expansion. One day, I can feel it...

Cool place to visit. It takes about one minute to unload/load each container and place it on a truck. Like clockwork.

The Port is immense. The old launch to Taboga used to leave from here and I couldn't  even recognize where it left from its grown so much. The Ports can also handle freight from the new (and deeper drafts) PostPanama ships.

With Teresa Arosemena at the Admin Bldg. She was the first person to hep me get started with the paintings I'm doing for the Expansion and on every trip to the isthmus has some magical way getting me access to wherever I want to paint along the canal route. Must be voodoo.