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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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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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
A Costa Rica Snake Story with a Happy Ending for All Concerned Read More »
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
Grecia Torch Passing Ceremony and More… Read More »
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.
WOO HOO! Time Zone Set Correctly Now on this Laptop Read More »
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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I think I have found my rental! It’s in San Ramon very close to Rainbow Refuge near where Dani and Georgia Hicks live. Jon Graham Mitchell spotted it for me on a rental site and forwarded it to me. I’m super excited about making sure it’s still available and finding out how soon I can
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