Nov 15, 2006 | Real Estate, Recovering REALTOR®
Over at Yo-Yo in Paradise, Tica Teri has a great photo on her blog this morning. A beautiful flat green space with a lone bull. Apparently next to a pig farm. These days, big green spaces, even ones next to smelly pig farms, are good for one thing and one thing only:...
Nov 13, 2006 | Cancer, Medical Care
Scott writes the Crazy Jungle blog and he’s found hope for cancer victims. He links to a Havana CNN article. And there’s more information on the Cuba Magica site, in Spanish so I can’t read it. Yet. At the bottom of the Cuba Magica link, there is...
Nov 12, 2006 | Communications, Cost of Living, Living-In, Utilities
The difficulties associated with living in a developing nation is rich fodder for sarcasm and humor. It puts the "frustrating and hilarious" in our daily lives. As much as we are frustrated by these little difficulties, we’ve chosen to happily suffer...
Nov 10, 2006 | Moving-To, Time
We don’t know what frickin’ time it is in our own house because we don’t have any cloCKS THAT WORK. $&@)(%#(&$!&!~!!! Oh, we’ve bought clocks. I bought two at Hipermas. That’s the only place I’ve seen them – even...
Nov 9, 2006 | Cost of Living, Panama
"Panama is all that," reports just about everyone. Costa Rica is fabulous, too. So fabulous, we’ve decided to stay for the time being. Forever? I don’t know. Is anything forever? Once we realized returning to the states after our Year Abroad was...
Nov 8, 2006 | Political Blah-Blah
I love blogging, writing about our move to Costa Rica, what it’s like, what’s happening, the trials and tribulations, the many joys. I want you ALL to join me here. So, for the most part, politics has no place here unless it is germane to Moving To Costa...
Nov 7, 2006 | Cost of Living, Living-In, Moving-To, Real Estate
Saturday we moved into our new house. It was a pretty simple affair, really, because our previous landlord bought most of the furniture and appliances we’d bought for that house. (You know, the house we rented "furnished"… don’t get me...
Nov 5, 2006 | Disclaimer, Faith, Serendipity, Spiritual Stuff
Costa Rica lives and breathes la fe [pronounced "fey" and meaning faith]. This is an extremely religious country. There are lifesize statutes of Jesus and the Virgin Mary everywhere, many grottos, plenty of nuns and an abundance of churches. Yesterday, my...
