A Confluence Of Staggering Proportions

Dec 29, 2009 | Uncategorized

Staggering might be too grandiose a word, but it's at least ginormous, this confluence. I'm not sure how it happened, but looking back, it was inevitable. And I blame it all on moving to Costa Rica.When you are an expat, no matter which country you are from or...

I’m Having One and I Feel Like Sharing:

Dec 24, 2009 | Badgetts, Festivals & Holidays

  We are celebrating Christmas in our new traditional fashion: by spending the holidays with the kosher Badgetts and not celebrating. It's now oh so de rigeur and oh so much more fun than the old way. The Bs have come every (#1) Christmas (#2) week (#3)...

Mecánicos

Dec 21, 2009 | Cars

When we asked the guy we bought our car from where he got it fixed, he bragged about his "shade tree" mecánico. He and his family were here on a year sabbatical from his university job where he taught – what else? – Spanish. Thank goodness Old...

Question From A Reader:

Dec 11, 2009 | Uncategorized

Hello Saratica, I found your interesting informative blog online. My name is Georgia and I lived in Costa Rica 2001-2006. Christmas 2005, I was robbed, so I moved to another country. After this economic crises, I am thinking of coming back. I have heard enough crime...