Life in a wealthy, major metropolitan city built on oil and gas, has its downsides. Traffic. Noise. Keeping up with the Joneses. It’s enough to drive an ordinary family mad. After years of dreaming about an escape to paradise, we’ve decided to make it reality and are packing up for a year-long adventure in Costa Rica.
I am an award-winning journalist with a major Canadian daily, which has graciously given me a year of unpaid leave. My husband is an assistant principal of an elementary/junior high taking a sabbatical. Our kids are three and five and addicted to TV.
Come along for the ride as we move from Calgary, Alberta, a city of more than one million, with our kids to a developing, Spanish-speaking country on a journey aimed at finding perspective and balance.
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Hi Boomers, i look forward to reading the unfolding adventure of your journey. What a great choice for your family; it will be a memory of the highest order whatever it has in store for you. Thanks for sharing
Hello Suzanne,
I’m enjoyning reading your blog and appreciate so much your honesty and sometimes self deprecating humor.
I hope you are enjoying the country and have time to see lots of it!
Thanks for the stories.
Liz
Wow,this blog is great…yes your brutal honesty does make this blog something. Enjoy and look forward to reading more
David (Calgarians looking to migrate to Costa Rica)
Hi Suzanne,
I wade into your blogs with a certain depth of trepidation on a daily basis as we have thought and discussed a life in Costa Rica so frequently.
Our journey there less than a year ago took us through the prison-life you describe, but alas we were sheltered from so much of that gloom as we spent more time on the Pacific coast and less time in the central area and San Jose.
Your honesty is both unnerving, but welcomed, for it brings the true perspective of such a life-changing experience.
Much of what you say is bang on, just better put than a coffee conversation.
Stay honest.
Go West. The bars and walls are less prevalent, and like here in Canada, the ticos tend to ratchet down the tension a bit the closer you get to the Pacific.
Our daughter studied Spanish in Samara and lived with a family there and really connected on a different level.
Peace be with you!