Yes, here we are enjoying  a cup of coffee on our veranda and suddenly the quiet is interrupted by a whine of a high powered turbo engine as a Eurocopter flies and lands just below our villa.  Later, I am on the way to the gym and notice a group of younger people who are looking the place over, taking photos and of course I am thinking, there goes the price of homes up another 10%!  Well it turns out that a film crew may have visited and are planning a shoot here for an internationally televised reality series in a few months.  I am thinking “Survivor” but of course living here in Valle Escondido is hardly roughing it, so unless they are planning on forcing  couples to drink Martinis and scale valley walls it ain’t happening.    

We have had Mel Gibson and other celebs here and I expect a lot of other people have come here as well.  Heck, John Wayne loved Boquete and came here on numerous occasions so it is not anything new!!

For grins, I decided to see how fuel effecint it was for them to fly 6 people up here to scout the area and discovered it was not that bad.  Of course if you can afford a mega million dollar copter (a used EC 130 2001 model is a bargain at $2,900,000) who cares what the fuel costs!!

Well, maybe the home prices will go up a lot more!!    See the video here