After four months living outside San Jose, the seedy capital of Costa Rica in a typical Tico home in a typical Tico community we’re ready to say goodbye.
It has been a wild ride here, full of interesting people, times and experiences. Not quite what we had imagined for our life in this tropical destination in Central America, but [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Goodbye Casa Roach
Posted in Costa Rica, Self discovery, travel, tagged Calgary, Central America, Costa Rica, drug cartel, earthquake, santo domingo on November 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Luck and opportunity
Posted in Self discovery, housing, tagged atenas, Costa Rica, luck, poco cielo, serenipity on November 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There are those who believe there’s no such thing as luck, that serendipity is what happens when planning meets opportunity.
Then there are those who believe there are no coincidences in life, that everything happens by some cosmic design or that we subconsciously create the lives we live, even those aspects of it we think we don’t [...]
Earthquake rocks Casa Roach
Posted in Costa Rica, travel, tagged Costa Rica, earthquake, OVSICORI, Panama, Richter Scale on November 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The bed in Casa Roach rocked last night but it had nothing to do with getting frisky.
It was an earthquake.
It happened just after midnight, as I was just drifting off to sleep. A wind and rain storm, combined with the usual racket of blaring car horns and a mind unable to be quieted had left me [...]
It ain’t easy being green
Posted in Costa Rica, travel, tagged Costa Rica, gringo, public transportation, taxes, tico, used car on November 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The search for a beach house has been put on hold as we undertake another, equally difficult hunt for a vehicle.
For three months we have relied on public transportation and taxis to ferry us around and it hasn’t been a hardship, financial or otherwise. Bus service is stupid cheap here, as little as 50 cents [...]
