Jun 4, 2006 | Communications, Culture Shock, Farmer's Market, MORGAN, RYAN, Spanish, Teenagers
Wherever we go, everyone assumes the boys are ticos. And wondering why these great looking tico kids are dragging around those dumb old pasty-faced gringos… Pretty amusing. It gets really hysterical when the local doing the assuming speaks rapid-fire Spanish to...
May 28, 2006 | Culture Shock, Driving
Driving in Costa Rica is a wild ting, mon. Not for the faint of heart. I didn’t drive here for the first six weeks. Scareless me was too terrified to take the wheel. First off, it’s all so confusing. Too many intersections have one too many choices: either...
May 22, 2006 | CR: Wildlife, Culture Shock
This is my desk where I spend a good amount of time. Right now, out the window on the right, I am looking at the twinkling lights of San Jose off in the valley. It’s like Christmas every night. I can just see the dim outline of the mountains on the other side....
May 21, 2006 | Attractions, Cultural Events, Culture Shock, God, what a world!
This is a photo of the INS building (the "private" insurance company) in downtown San Jose. See the bright white disc in the upper right of this photo? In that cloud? Guess what that is? Er, who? Visitors, of course!!! UFOs. And everybody sees them!!! You...
May 20, 2006 | Amistad Institute, Attractions, Culture Shock, Driving, Travel Tips
On a clear day, you can see Volcán Barva from our back door, off in the distance. See? Right there in the middle of this photo is the tip of the volcano. Our landlord, Roz, and everyone at Amistad Institute where we take Spanish language lessons say it is...
May 18, 2006 | Arts, Culture Shock, Movies
Movies R us. Like most Americans, we are BIG on movies. We watched a movie practically every night on pay-per-view. We cried when cancelling our Netflix subscription. The boys have seen Memento, West Side Story, The Magnificent Seven, To Wong Foo (an all-time...
May 16, 2006 | Arts, Culture Shock
We’ve been looking at artwork every chance we get. We attend all the art festivals, visit galleries, shops, the like. Our Jack Baron’s cats, Judi Pingston’s Island Girl, my Elvis, Hal’s Haitian marble players are in storage along with all the...
May 11, 2006 | Culture Shock, Driving, Travel Tips
If you are driving in Costa Rica, you need to know about the quirky way they handle railroad crossings. See the sign in this photo? These are before and after railroad tracks. Sometimes. Sometimes only on one side. And only some tracks. Not all, not by a long shot....
