What a week...

It's good to be back in the US of A!! -- I spent most of the week in Panama City. My expectations were low and I was mildly surprised. I flew out on Monday. The shortest flight this calendar year. Just about 3 hours long. Upgraded to First Class on both outbound and return!! Nice! -- I met my  two Sun cohorts, Bill and Tim at the hotel on Monday night. We met for dinner to compare notes and plot strategy. We were meeting a partner the next day  to negotiate some changes to a joint venture agreement. The meetings went OK on Tuesday, with lots of ground to cover.  An issue here an issue there, worries about the future. 

We left Tueday night thinking we made good progress. We went to a Spanish restaurant, great calamari, a nice piece of salmon and a Malbec...awesome combination. We were going to meet later on Wednesday morning as we had some work to do on our proposal. We huddled in the lobby at 10:30 to get to the office by 11:00. We gave the taxi driver the exact same direction as the day befor. The "Banco General" building on such and such a street. He delivered us to a "Banco General" building, but it was the wrong one...we had paid and he was gone by the time he figured it out. We saw the building in the distance and decided to hoof it...we were 15 minutes late and kinda moist when we finally arrived.

Wednesday's meeting kinda got off to a rough start with about 10 demands from the partner...of which we agreed to about 8.  We hammered out a "game plan"; updated the financials; translated the agreement into "legalese" and pretty much called it a day. The partner took us to the canal for cocktails and then a really nice dinner. I think he liked the progress we had made. The flight home was at 2:30 so I worked from the hotel most of the day. The surprise was they had an "Admirals Club" at the airport...Nice!

The flight was uneventful, we landed on time,  the lines at passport control were a breeze and the driver was waiting! (sweet) -- it felt good to get home!