Rebecca Wentzel
Azuero Peninsula
Rebecca Wentzel
I was raised in a series of small towns in the American Midwest, but from a very early age had this sense of belonging elsewhere. Not another town, city or state, but another part of the world. Eventually, I spent a summer as an exchange student on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama, as luck of the draw would have it.
After college, I returned to the Azuero Peninsula to visit my exchange family and never seemed to find a good excuse to go home! So here I am, more than 20 years later, hooked on the easy charm of my true hometown: Chitre, “where no one is a stranger”, as the city’s motto goes.