The Four Seasons

Costa Rica has four seasons, alright: wet, dry, fly and june bug. Fly and junebug season starts the same day as wet season, the first of May.

CRL Thread: Are Gringos Fleeing CR?

I see and hear of plenty of people leaving because of property not selling in the country of origin so they have to return. Crime has driven some people out, certainly. Then there's the normal quota of expats who can't take the culture shock – I have...

S.N.A.F.U.

I can hardly bring myself to write this because my fingers are stiff with frustration and I am on the verge of tears. Tomorrow, I will feel like laughing. Maybe. Here goes.Lucky us, we are rentistas so we don't have to leave the country every 90 days. There are...

Man Cannot Live on Bread Alone.

No. He'll also need butter. More specifically, ghee. We have been living on bread since our friends, the Jets, brought us this book. If this continues, we will be Pillsbury dough people. The week the boys were at the beach with the Jets, Hal figures he and I ate 7...

Internet Hijacker…

Help! I’ve been compromised. Amnet just called. The guy asked if I use Outlook for email. I do… how did he know? Then he said the Saratica account was sending out 10,000 spam emails via Outlook. This has been going on since yesterday.So… whaddya do...

All good

Hi this is Morgan, mom called to say everything is alright with Ryan. She’ll write more later

The Malicious Drive-By Download Site

Hit it again: the site that downloaded a program that wiped Hal’s computer clean as a whistle. And I stumbled across it while researching Lotrel, of all things! When I realized I was at the Malicious Drive-By Download site (MDBD), I wrote down the web address...