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Our Heart-to-Heart tour began September 2019 in Darjeeling, West Bengal near the end of the regions persistent monsoon. So charming. With sweeping Himalayan vistas. Surrounded by lush tea plantations! 

In Darjeeling, we met Rajiv Mitra a dynamic local tea merchant. Darjeeling produces the oft-described champagne of teas. Rajiv purveys only single-estate, premium teas at teaemporium.net. We became good friends. Listen to our informative and lively conversation.

Who are we? Get to know the Hotel Guys! Listen to our more in-depth introduction podcast.

The Hotel Guys are on the road again! Our six month visit to India in 2017 left us yearning for more. More. More! We’ll drink tea in Darjeeling. Take a river cruise in Assam. Visit remote carved temples. Ride rickshaws in teeming cities. We’ll see old friends and undoubtedly make many new ones. After three months touring incredible India, we’ll push on to Thailand to integrate on the beach in the south and then meander the old city of Chiang Mai in the north. By February 2020 we’ll still have more than three months of our “Open-Hearted” excursion remaining. Enjoy listening to our podcast now and then join us throughout our adventures! Keep traveling!

We were in Central America for six months before we discovered new friends thought we had violent, nefarious tendencies! We share that hilarious story and other memories, as guests on KOHI radio in Oregon USA, from our recently completed “Good Life” tour to Costa Rica and Panama. Also, we discuss our new adventure, an “Open Heart” tour, that starts in August.

Our podcast guest is Nanette Witmer, a contributing writer at International Living magazine. Nanette has lived in Panama for seven years and shares her experiences about expat living in one of the most popular destinations for North American expats.

Online resources from our discussion: https://boquete.ning.com; https://internationalliving.com;

We met a delightful retired woman in Panama we are calling “Linda.” This is Linda’s story of working in the multi-billion dollar sports betting industry for a high-profile three-time felon. Posing as a wealthy independent investor, she traveled the world with her company lawyer opening multimillion dollar bank accounts.

Before our first cup of morning tea on February 26, 2019 in our rental house in Playa Coronado, Panama, Rich suffered a mini-stroke later diagnosed as a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack).

We were 90 minutes from the country’s best medical care in the top-notch private hospitals of Panama City. We wasted no time rushing to San Fernando hospital. Follow the link to listen to our story.

We were hoping for low-key, year-end holidays. Instead, we battled a homegrown fire — on Christmas Eve! Nothing a little recovery time by our pool didn’t cure — along with two weeks of nursing Paul’s minor burns. Sadly now, our three-month visit to Costa Rica is ending. But included are nuggets on two reasonably priced Costa Rican properties we rented — one, a killer cabina near playa Bejuco with a pool for less than $50 per night and, the other, a modern two-bedroom with a balcony and a stunning view of wind-swept Lake Arenal (near Tronodora/Tilaran) for less than $40 per night. Medical tourism, our upcoming travel to Panama and more. Have a listen.

We Skyped with our friend Nancy in Oregon USA and told her the story of our first 72 hours in Costa Rica. Unexpectedly, we had an immediate change of plans that saved us thousands of dollars! And we met a couple incredible people who changed our three months here. All in the first 72 hours!

We were interviewed on the radio in Oregon talking about our travels in South and Southeast Asia just before embarking on a six month adventure in Central America.