Jungle House Review

Jan 7, 2007 | Accommodations

This just in from Robert, Randi, Jacob and Willow. I want to go here: "Jungle House is a peaceful escape from the crazy world where you will re-define ‘awesome’ several times a day. The road south from Quepos is rough and the bridges are scary, but...

A Note From New Jersey

Jan 6, 2007 | Company, Culture Shock, Expat, Medical Care, Moving-To

Remember Robert, Randi, Jacob and Willow? We had communicated online for several months till we practically felt like octuplets separated at birth… Robert has been gung-ho on Costa Rica for a long time – in fact, he’s put together a great website...

Another Farting, Belching, Slobbering Male

Jan 6, 2007 | Expat, Living-In, Pets, WINSTON

Who adores me. Meet Clemenza. That’s Capo Clemenza to you. He’s a valley bulldog. Oops: Valley Bulldog, a pretend purebred. As one guy put it on a bulldog forum: "Even though you mixed two purebreds, you still gotta mutt." Clemenza doesn’t...

OH NO

Jan 2, 2007 | Expat

I just looked at a picture of old fart expats, thinking "I probably won’t have anything in common with these guys. These are old farts." Upon closer examination, I realize they are not that old. In fact, they are…. Jal’s age. Which means...

Cost of Living

Jan 2, 2007 | Cost of Living, Living-In

If you are even remotely curious about moving to Costa Rica, join the Costa Rica Living group bulletin board. It’s very active with lots of longtime members. You can search the messages on any topic – you will get tons of good information. On your...

Celebutard

Jan 2, 2007 | Humor

Urban Dictionary is an online dictionary of slang and jargon in use by the GenXers and the Millenials, my sons’ generation. There are established words there, too, but with a more complete definition – sometimes a real, sometimes imagined definition...

Do You See What I See?

Jan 1, 2007 | Cost of Living, Food, Living-In

Aaahhhh. Whining works. My friend Dianne on the other side of the valley spotted these in Auto Mercado. We went yesterday and there they were! Of course, this little box is $5. But that’s at least as much as it costs to get them here… My life is damn near...

Fun Paying Utilities

Jan 1, 2007 | Cost of Living, Living-In, Mail and Shipping, Utilities

Saturday I went to pay my utility bills: water, electric, phone, cel phone, tv, wifi. My cel is $8/month and I recently paid three months of that. I haven’t paid my phone yet, but that will be about $5 for the month. You don’t write checks in Costa Rica....