Sep 29, 2006 | Culture Shock, Driving, Renting A Car, Travel Tips
If you are the adventurous type and will be driving yourself around Costa Rica in a rental car, bring a compass (we have the Brunton) and a GPS. Garmin is state of the art. We have a Lowrance Avionics GPS, big screen and expensive. Jal was taking flying lessons before...
Sep 26, 2006 | Driving, Travel Tips
Although we have never hired a car and driver, lots of people do and are very happy with the service. Jal, my pilot, uses a compass, a map and a GPS to get around. Now, we can pretty much get anywhere. But if you don’t care for the time buses can take (not to...
Sep 21, 2006 | Culture Shock, Driving, Travel Tips
Every night I risk my life driving to rehearsal. The play opens tomorrow, then runs 3 weekends, 3 performances each. It’s been six weeks of driving every night and so far, so good. I’m alive. To add a nice layer of panic, the boys are working the play so...
Sep 13, 2006 | Code Enforcement, Culture Shock, God, what a world!, Political Blah-Blah, Travel Tips
This from today’s A.M. Costa Rica:Our readers’ opinionsAirport security glitch makes this visitor angry"Dear A.M. Costa Rica: My wife and I currently live in Florida, and we are considering moving to Costa Rica. As such I have been to Costa Rica...
Sep 12, 2006 | Culture Shock, Nicaragua, Travel Tips
Mr. Lee is an expat living in Jaco. I’ve never met him, but just finished reading about his recent journey to the campo [countryside] in Nicaragua. I don’t know how I would have fared to tell you the truth. A fascinating tale....
Aug 28, 2006 | Accommodations, Attractions, Pets, Travel Tips
Roca Negra Inn 011-506-479-9237Pet friendly, Volcán Arenal. My friend and fellow blogger Jennifer wrote about her recent trip to Volcán Arenal and recommended Roca Negra. I googled it and found a year-old LA Times article written by an Arthur Frommer (THE Arthur...
Aug 26, 2006 | Accommodations, Attractions, Colones, Travel Tips
Costa Rica is a vacationer’s wonderland. I’ve had several visitors and everyone is wowed as we were! So fun to show "new" (like we are "old") visitors around! On the forums and on the blog, future visitors write asking about Places to...
Aug 20, 2006 | Food, Panama, Travel Tips
When you blog, you "meet" people all over the world who also blog. Bloggers, as I’m sure you have realized by now, are fascinating people. Ok, maybe that’s a stretch. Maybe we are just verbose. Verbose and usually cheerful. I have a blogger...
