The PanaFamilia Podcast

In our second to last episode of Season 4, we are talking about our favorite thing to do here in our beautiful little Panamanian town - go to the beach! We have a few different "versions" of our beach trip and we share what those look like. The early morning sunrise quick trip, the Sunday pre-waffle relaxed trip, and the longer- take an ice chest and snacks- beach trip. Playa Las Lajas is a huge,...

Today's episode was recorded during a huge storm, so you'll hear some rain and a few loud peels of thunder! This week's episode of The PanaFamilia Podcast we're sharing all about how to get a drivers license in Panama (pretty easy!) and what is is like driving around here. Eduardo and Nicole talk about driving in small towns, busier towns, on the PanAmerican and in Panama City. Don't worry, it onl...

In this week’s episode of The PanaFamilia Podcast, we are giving you an insider look into our lovely little town of Las Lajas, Chiriqui! If you were to take a drive here, come for a visit or stay for a while - what would you see and what would it feel like? Why do we love it here? What are we willing to “live without” for the perks of a small, safe, peaceful town in a beautiful tropical beach town...

Today's episode is a fun one and all about the food and plants we grow here on our tropical farm in Panama, and how we planned out our home and farm from scratch. We discuss how we were able to start with basically a blank slate, piece of raw pasture land and create roads that connected our out-buildings, how we decided where to put our home, where to plant trees, where to place our gardens, and h...

In this week's episode of The PanaFamilia Podcast, we're talking all about cell phones, cell providers, the importance of WhatsApp, what we use for cell service here in Panama, cell phone repairs and more! If you have an AT&T unlimited plan from USA, you automatically have the Latin America plan, which means you can use your cell phone like normal down here without changing your plan. For ever...

This week's episode is all about booze! (Sorry mom). Eduardo and Nicole like to enjoy an evening drink most days and thought it would be fun to share about the kind of alcohol you can find here in Panama. We talk about local beers and local microbreweries- Casa Bruja is the best! We discuss how you can find wines from around the world here! Panama imports wines from France, Argentina, Chile, Spain...

Hi guys! Today Eduardo and Nicole talk all about parenting. We share how wonderful and fulfilling it is to be parents, even through all the challenges and difficult times. We talk about how once you have multiple kids, your family actually runs smoother and you have more time for yourself because lots of kids means they can help each other sometimes. We talk about how children are an integral part...

In today's episode we're excited to share about our trip for Nicole's 40th birthday to Bogota, Colombia! We took our three young children for a 5 day trip to Bogota back in March and had an amazing time! In this episode, we share the different museums we went to and how great they were; the delicious restaurants we went to; how much we loved the botanical gardens and how Eduardo almost cried when...

This week's episode of The PanaFamilia Podcast starts out with some shoutouts and reviews from our wonderful listeners! Be sure to listen in on those; we love hearing from you guys! Then Eduardo and Nicole give a short little fun & silly movie "review" of The Hail Mary Project, since we hardly watch new movies anymore! We then get into today's topic, which is how the 2026 "super El Niño" is al...

Eduardo thought it would be really fun to do an episode on the 2026 World Cup this week. When this episode is released it will be the day after the Final Game, we recorded before the final game, so we didn't know the winners yet. Living in Panama, we have seen first hand how excited basically every other country outside of the USA gets over fútbol (soccer)! Restaurants and shops have flags up ever...

Today we celebrate America's 250th Independence Day and our 3rd independence day from America. haha. Eduardo and Nicole reflect on leaving the USA 3 years ago and share a little bit about those hectic days, feelings, and what is what like to leave everything behind. Then we ask each other, are we still sure this is the right place for us? Eduardo travels extensively in Latin America for work - so...

Today Eduardo and Nicole share what a typical day on our tropical farm here in Panama looks like. We wake up and have coffee watching the sunrise, get to work on outdoor projects/garden stuff; hang laundry out to dry; milk cows; cook and clean; relaxed homeschool activities with the boys and more. We discuss what we eat in a day; what shows we let our kids watch; how we divide tasks; what fills up...

This week, Eduardo & Nicole discuss their recent trip to visit Panama City. Panama City is about a 6 hour drive from Las Lajas, Chiriqui where they live. They talk about an amazing steakhouse they ate at for the first time and fell in love with. They also share about the process of renewing their children's passports at the USA embassy in Panama City. If you're staying in Panama City for a tri...

This week I interview Eduardo about our “cattle kingdom” as we playfully call it. We talk all about our cattle here in Las Lajas, Panama! Find out what kind of cattle we have and what Eduardo is breeding for; how our goals have changed for our cattle; dairy versus beef on our farm; how Eduardo cares for and manages our herd; how we stay efficient and make money raising cattle here in Panama; and E...

In today's episode, Eduardo and Nicole discuss something that they have talked about before, but with a bit more information for those of you who may be considering purchasing property in Panama. We start by giving a general guideline of how purchasing property in Panama works, who can buy land/property in Panama (spoiler: anyone!), how the process works and how long it takes. We then share our pe...

In today's episode Eduardo & Nicole talk all about where they source their food in Panama. Because we live in the Chiriquí Province, we shop mostly in David and a bit up towards Boquete. We list all the different store (big and small) that we shop at, as well as the regenerative farm we make weekly orders at for veggies & meat. We share how it took us a while to find all these great source...

Today we share all about our recent trip to Santa Catalina, Panama. Santa Catalina is a surf destination in Panama that we have been wanting to visit ever since we moved here. It is about 2 hours off the PanAmerican highway, but there is a lot to do in this little town in Panama. Surfing and other water activities are very popular here. The town of Santa Catalina, Panama is walkable with lots of g...

We are back after a year of not recording! We have been busy settling into life here in our aircrete dome home, on our tropical regenerative farm that we started from scratch. We are ready to start sharing about our life and farm again and also sharing more valuable information with those of you looking to relocate to this area of Panama, or Panama in general. >> What do you want to learn ab...

We are back after a bit of a hiatus. We finally got internet at our dome and now it is much easier to upload podcast episodes, so we are hoping to stay consistent again. Today we discuss the tropical storm that hit Panama during November 2024. There was significantly more rain than usual for that time of year (end of rainy season). We talk about how our farm and dome handled all the water; all the...

In this Friday’s episode we dive into our solar power system! Our original plan was to connect to the grid and have a backup solar system, but that all changed when we got a quote for the thick cables that we needed to get power from the road to our house about 200 yards from the road. Listen to learn more about why we decided to go fully off-grid; what it was like finding a solar company down her...

We are back with Season 3 and as promised, we waited until we could record this episode in our aircrete dome home! We officially moved in about 2 weeks ago and have been so happy and busy here! There's was a lot of last minute work over the past few weeks before we moved in, to make the dome livable for us (including setting up our solar power system, getting our well water to the house, installin...

Today is the last episode of Season 2! We are going to take a break while we complete our dome, receive our goods from our shipping container coming from USA, move into our dome, and work on some farm projects. We are excited to start Season 3 from our DOME HOME! In our last episode for this season we share FIVE REASONS why we think you should move to Chiriqui, Panama. Whether you're looking for a...

We've been living in Panama for ONE YEAR now! This Friday's episode is a little different. Eduardo and I (Nicole) came up with some questions for each other in regards to moving to and living in Panama for one year now. We didn't talk about these questions before, so these are spur of the moment answers. ** We apologize that a big thunder and rain storm came through while we were recording this ep...

On this, our one year anniversary of moving to Panama, we have a short and sweet episode with some more dome home progress. We discuss where we're at in the building process and how we hope to be moving into our custom designed aircrete dome home by August (in about 6 weeks)! We are preparing for final projects like wall finishes, paint, plumbing, electric, dome caps, custom doors and windows, and...

Well today's episode was recorded at the perfect time....you can hear a big rainstorm pretty much the whole time we're talking! But, you should be able to hear us just fine. In this week's episode we discuss the transition from the dry to rainy season; what it's like; what we love about the rainy season; a few things that we don't love about the rainy season and more. Some of the things we love an...