Oh, Goody!

This from today’s A.M. Costa Rica: "President Óscar Arias Sánchez swears in an estimated 110 ‘presidential delegates’ from all over the country. They were in training Wednesday in San José and will be the eyes and ears of the government in their...

Quality Time With I.C.E.

This is Alejandro who made dealing with the biggest and reputedly most frustrating bureaucracy in Costa Rica anything but. Right after I took this photo and put away my camera, he broke into this big grin which showed his devilishly handsome side… but I knew if...

Volcán Arenal Travel Tips!

Roca Negra Inn 011-506-479-9237Pet friendly, Volcán Arenal. My friend and fellow blogger Jennifer wrote about her recent trip to Volcán Arenal and recommended Roca Negra. I googled it and found a year-old LA Times article written by an Arthur Frommer (THE Arthur...

Farmer’s Market Haul

Jal went to the Farmer’s Market today. He got all this for 7500 colones ($15). Melons are out of season and so were expensive today at 1000 colones ($2) a pop. Including 300 colones to rent the cart, 100 colones for each kid that helped haul the goods, 500...

Travel Tips #2

Costa Rica is a vacationer’s wonderland. I’ve had several visitors and everyone is wowed as we were! So fun to show "new" (like we are "old") visitors around! On the forums and on the blog, future visitors write asking about Places to...

A Day In David

Was enough David [da-VEED] for ‘dis broad… Welp, that’s David. A bustling, energetic capitalist city selling everything you can imagine. No sign ordinance here, oh no. A bit overwhelming. We didn’t go into any of the stores, except for the cell...

De Blonde

Rehearsals are in full swing for Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean. I play Sissy, a brash buxom bleached blonde, the part Cher played in the movie. The plan was for me to wear a wig for this part, a hideous idea: hot, itchy and I’d have hat...

De Plane

When I first started going to Key West back in the late 70’s, we would fly a puddle jumper from Miami to the southernmost city. Usually a tiny propellor plane with about 12 seats. And everyone was served a Tequila Sunrise. That was the only thing you were...