Barbara Stross shared about her life on an island in Panama, with pictures.She has a beautiful setup, though security is a problem (she gets burglarized when she's gone).
She has an ATV for getting to and from town.
The cisterns fill in like half an hour during the heavy rain storms.
The sunsets are beautiful, complete with lightning. The community is cosmopolitan.
Howler monkeys. Bats. Colorful spiders.
Unfortunately, Barbara's ecosystem is coming under severe strain thanks to unscrupulous developers and consumerist suburbanites expecting "all the amenities" and then some (blech).
Barbara was a school teacher in Portland for many years, at Cleveland (a contemporary of Dick Pugh) and at Metropolitan Learning Center.
Lew Frederick operated Don's PowerBook. Eve Menger joined us as well, and Brian Sharp. Derek. Barry. About thirteen of us in all.
