El Cajon Costa Rica will be my new home. Brooke Bishop drove me there to see it in person today and I fell in love immediately. Move imminent, probably no later than this coming Saturday. Brooke is writing up the lease agreement now. I cannot recommend her highly enough. She loves what she does, and […]
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Tomorrow Jon, Adilio and I head back to San Jose to finalize my status change paperwork. We have to stop part way there to pick up the translated doc that Angie Vargas did for me. I hope to pay her direct so I don’t have to go back to the bank to do that.
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While I was riding in Jon’s vehicle yeterday, he shared a story as we passed a place with an agricultural field on the left side of the road and an escuela (school) on the right. He said he and Francisco were passing the same place one time when they saw a seriously deadly
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My Costa Rica “tribe” (except for Laurie, Melaney and Dani) gathered this morning to witness and help celebrate Costa Rica’s 204th year of independence today. (Someone correct me if 204 is wrong, please!) Below are images from downtown Grecia. (There are videos on my Facebook page, if you want to see some of these
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Below are images from this morning’s porch-passing ceremony and celebration. Latin and South America are much more civilized people than US Americans. This celebration and ceremony symbolizes the way in which Latin Americans settle their differences without wars and boundary-jumping, among other things. It’s part of Costa Rica’s Independence Day celebration but it includes other
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It occurred to me last night that I didn’t blog about the trip down to Costa Rica from Seattle/Tacoma. I want to do that now. As you know, I gave Charli gabapentin the night before we flew, and then at about noon on September 3rd, the day we flew. By the time the
I managed to set the correct time zone on this laptop this morning. That’s going to be very helpful moving forward. Hurray! Topher and I are going to be heading for San Ramon at about 11 but before that he wants to go into Grecia to try to stop the processing of his eyeglasses.
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I haven’t experienced a thunderstorm like this one since I lived in Lake Charles LA in 1972. It sounded like the Civil War had broken out again. It was truly unsettling. Today’s thunderstorm is officially “peligroso” — dangerous. The electricity failed for milliseconds more than half a dozen times, and the lightning bolts lit
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Despues de una semana en Costa Rica… After one week in Costa Rica… esto es lo que se/que he aprendido this is what I know/what I have learned: Necesito descubrir como convertir esto al espanol teclado para poder escribir en espanol correctamente I need to figure out how to turn this into a Spanish keyboard
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Charli’s first three times outdoors in Costa Rica today didn’t last long. There were three reasons for that… all involving other animals. The first time, it was hot outside. I started by putting her in her harness and holding her leash, but she hated that and kept rolling around and trying to dislodge the
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