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I moved to Costa Rica in June, 2005, and gave up my corporate life in the U.S. So, this blog is all about Costa Rica, my experiences here....and, the B&B and relocation tour company I am running full time! I will post often so check back often! To see the B&B click here:
http://www.AngelValleyFarmBandB.com
To see my site about my relocation company, "Boomers in Costa Rica Tours," go here: www.boomersincostarica.com
To see my "Boomers Blog," go here: www.costaricarealestate.typepad.com

To see my new residential development http://www.crcommunities.com/PacificHills.html listed as a Buy Safe Costa Rica Recommended Listing, go here: www.buysafecostarica.com

And come visit us!! Email me at Andrew4CR@gmail.com

Andrew

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By AndrewNCostaRica
March 2nd 2008

Summer Ramblings

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

Caribbean Beach
I recently went to the Caribbean coast with my friend and godson, Basem. There are such great beaches there!

It’s hard to live in Costa Rica and not get to the beach frequently. Even if those of us living the Central Valley complain about the heat and humidity, too many tourists and higher prices, it is still fun to get to the beach. This is definitely a benefit of living here—being only about one hour from the coast and 1.5 hours from a nice, white sand beach. I wish I could go more often but work keeps me busy most days. We are in the midst of summer here now which means sunny days, warm temperatures and most importantly, no [View Full Entry]

By AndrewNCostaRica
December 24th 2007

The Year-End Review

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

View of the Nicoya Peninsula
These are just random photos taken during 2007

Since I moved to Costa Rica and have been keeping up this blog, I have been writing a “year-end review,” which is essentially my take on the preceding 12 months. With the holidays here and everything going on, I thought I’d get it done now—well now, meant I started it several weeks ago but I finally finished it today. So here goes, and it’s bound to be long-winded! Looking back… Wow, what a year! I never thought I’d be as busy as I was this past year and the “life-changing” events have been numerous. A few highlights: 1. Finished up addressing [View Full Entry]

By AndrewNCostaRica
November 9th 2007

The Winds of Changing Seasons?

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

Church in San Ramon

This blog entry includes some recent pictures I took of San Ramon—all fairly random—but they give you a flavor for this terrific town. It’s been windy today! And chilly! I’m sure it is still in the 50s but it seems like it is freezing out for someone now used to semi-tropical and tropical temperatures. The winds are supposedly a signal that the season is changing. I do this every year and usually I’m wrong (as it’ll probably rain again tomorrow!). However, AM Costa Rica (www.amcostarica.com) reported that the season is beginning to change as evidenced by the winds picking up, pushing [View Full Entry]

By AndrewNCostaRica
October 6th 2007

Back in the Saddle Again

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

Riding the trail
I'm the one in the white shirt in the middle.

It has been quite some time since I went horseback riding, perhaps as long as six months. A number of factors have contributed to this fact. First, one of my horses died of old age and the remaining one I donated to a friend’s collection of other horses and animals since my surviving horse seemed very lonely. Second, I’ve been working much more than I should. This needs to change! I do enjoy horseback riding and I had a terrific experience recently. The photos on this blog entry are from this trip. So, we saddled up five horses with the premise [View Full Entry]

By AndrewNCostaRica
October 1st 2007

Finding Time to Blog about Life in Costa Rica!

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica

View in Atenas

This is the longest I think I’ve gone between blog entries with my last one being on August 29th! I’m usually a fairly prolific (okay, long-winded!) writer but I’ve just been so busy the past few months that there has been barely enough time to keep in touch with friends and family let alone write my blog. Tours, tours and more tours…. May through September have been extremely busy running our Boomers in Costa Rica tours—www.boomersincostarica.com. We’ve been really fortunate to have met many terrific people from different parts of the U.S. who are considering retiring in Costa Rica or just [View Full Entry]

By AndrewNCostaRica
August 29th 2007

Random Thoughts in Costa Rica

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

Sunset views in Magallanes, San Ramon
How I long for the dry season!

It has been quite some time since I’ve updated my blog. It’s been well over a month actually which is unusual for me. Since my last entry, travelblog.org crashed and lost a lot of people’s blog entries. Luckily for me, I type all of my entries in MS Word and save them in multiple places (just in case my blog becomes famous after I’m long gone). In fact, if you look at my last blog entry, which travelblog “found,” the captions on the pictures of my trip to Thailand all read, “recovered:” http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/San-Ramon/blog-183513.html. Luckily, travelblog only lost two my 73 blog [View Full Entry]

By AndrewNCostaRica
July 20th 2007

TRYING to get back to Costa Rica, etc.

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

RECOVERED

Hola from Houston! Ah, the joys of international travel! I’m currently stuck in Houston for two days after a long trek back from Thailand. The 19 hours of flying from Bangkok to New York wasn’t so bad actually, but the nine hours on the plane to get from New York to Houston was pure pain! Besides the crying kids behind me on the plane, we were several hours late leaving New York, got diverted to Lafayette, Louisiana for hours, and then we were kept waiting on the tarmac in Houston for a long while before finally being allowed to deplane. [View Full Entry]

By AndrewNCostaRica
June 28th 2007

Wacky Weather isnâ€™t for Wimps, beaches, art, and moreâ€¦.

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

Punta Uva beach in the Caribbean
Pretty much paradise!

I remember when I first moved to Costa Rica, it seemed as though every week brought a different problem: washing machine breaking down, leaks in the roof, telephone line going down, and so much more! I seemed to have re-lived my early days in Costa Rica over the past few weeks, with violent thunderstorms causing all kinds of problems with electrical equipment. In less than 10 days storms have blown my satellite television box, fried a lamp, zapped my portable phone and killed two of the outlets on a supposedly “top of line” surge supressor. And to top it all [View Full Entry]

By AndrewNCostaRica
June 18th 2007

Storms, Getting Away, Internet, and more....

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

Amazing butterfly

Wow! We had quite the thunderstorms here in San Ramon last week. Last Wednesday we had a storm that was the most violent I’ve seen since living here. I was sitting out on the patio with some “Boomers” tour guests just watching the light show in the valley as the rain poured down. Then (and it seemed like it came out of nowhere), this massive lightning bolt hits very near to the house—in fact I think it hit the telephone pole next to the house—and sparks are flying out from the pole! Of course, we lost electricity right away. In [View Full Entry]

By AndrewNCostaRica
June 10th 2007

Busy June....not so bad rainy season (so far)....

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

Great view of Lake Arenal

It’s been a busy June already and doesn’t get any slower for the remainder of the month! This month I’ve already had friends Seth, Susan and their kids visit. Then there’s another “Boomers” tour, then my cousin and his wife visit, then yet another Boomers tour. Phew! Luckily, July will be more relaxed (with a two-week trip to Thailand—more about that in a future blog), and August is fairly relaxed as well. That is how it is here! One month it is crazy-busy and the next month it is calm and peaceful. I seem to need more of the latter, [View Full Entry]

Friends Seth & Susan, and Ethan and Paige

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Blogs & Travel Journals

Summer Ramblings

The Year-End Review

The Winds of Changing Seasons?

Back in the Saddle Again

Finding Time to Blog about Life in Costa Rica!

Random Thoughts in Costa Rica

TRYING to get back to Costa Rica, etc.

Wacky Weather isnâ€™t for Wimps, beaches, art, and moreâ€¦.

Storms, Getting Away, Internet, and more....

Busy June....not so bad rainy season (so far)....