Laurie Barron has her eye on me. I need to make two corrections to earlier blog posts. She says the lizard image she sent me … this one … .. …is not an immature iguana but some kind of basilisk lizard. I’m wondering if it’s the species nicknamed “the Jesus lizard”. I can’t see […]
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I’m back from the trip to Grecia. I decided to use Uber today. The driver was a gal who wants to learn more English, and I told her I wanted to learn more Spanish, so we’ve made arrangements to travel together whenever I go into town. She got a wee bit lost coming to
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Good morning, dear ones! First thing this morning, early, I walked my bag of basura (trash) to the main road. Pickup is Mondays and Thursdays but the container for it is always sitting there, so it’s possible to put stuff in there on any day. And by pickup day it’s usually crammed full. This
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It’s a bright, beautiful Monday morning here in El Cajon Costa Rica, so I took a walk down our driveway to the main road, and then up a steep hill to the nearest Tico owned tienda. Here is what I saw on my way there: That’s Grecia off in the distance. Above it on
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WOO HOO! I made my first online order to Mas por Menos with Cat’s help. The total was $130.96 in USD but remember I’m building my food stash from scratch, so I was surprised that the cost wasn’t more. I tried three or four times on my own to order online, but couldn’t get the
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I woke this morning in my new home in El Cajon Costa Rica to a nighttime sky at around 4:30 a.m., so I took images (through the master bedroom screen) every thirty to forty minutes while the landscape in front of me changed from la noche escura (the dark night) to pleno dia (broad daylight):
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This morning I Ubered back down to Grecia to do some more casita furnishing shopping. I got some more money out of an ATM because why not — and just to be sure I still have some in my pocket after I pay two months’ rent tomorrow (one of them a security deposit) and for
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Today is my last full day at Rainbow Refuge at Villas Escondidas. It’s going to be bittersweet, for sure. Last night, I was reflecting on what a hare-brained idea it was to move to Costa Rica without at least one preliminary visit to make sure my 12-plus years of due diligence research was pointing me
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I am loving Costa Rica more by the day. Today is Thursday and I have two new things to report, both of them good, and one of them downright heartwarming. I Ubered solo to Grecia this morning for the first time. (Topher flew home yesterday.) I went there to exchange USD for colones,
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Okay friends, I need your help … TODAY!!! Don’t sit this one out. Time is short and the water rises. Help me think! It has been decades since I have had to furnish a place from scratch. Yes, the rental I’m getting is furnished (thankfully!) and I have Charli’s needs firmly in mind
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