Dec 20, 2006 | Cultural Events, Entrepreneurs, Festivals & Holidays
Like small Catholic developing nations everywhere, Jesus is big in Costa Rica. So his birthday next week is cause for celebration and pageantry. Huge is too small a word. In fact, there are fireworks going off down in the valley as I write this. (Fireworks are legal...
Dec 9, 2006 | Cost of Living, Key West
My new friend, Paul, who has been visiting Costa Rica since the 70’s and still plans to move there after retiring, ETA spring ’07, suggests that "with your little red dot located there so far from center in ‘Libertarianland’ you would...
Dec 7, 2006 | Political Blah-Blah
Here’s my score: What’s yours? By the way, I’m ready to go HOME!!! SO ready. I’m loving seeing my friends, being back in the community way. But. "There’s no place like home." Click click. "There’s no place like...
Dec 3, 2006 | Culture Shock, MORGAN, Teenagers
Saturday was Mo’s birthday: his 15th. How did THAT happen? They are having a pool party today, celebrating both birthdays (Ryan will be 14 in January). The real question is, how did this happen: In Naples, we found a Ross which is like a TJ Maxx or Steinmart...
Dec 1, 2006 | Cost of Living, Culture Shock, Expat, Key West, Medical Care, Political Blah-Blah, Teenagers
Traveling is wearing on a body. Living out of a suitcase, crammed into someone’s spare bedroom with two huge loud teenagers, using our hosts’ energy sources and eating their food. We buy a lot of the food, but you have to wonder what their utility bills...
