It’s been a little while since I wrote so I thought I’d take the time once again to share my thoughts with whomever is ready this—hopefully many people. I get many emails from people. Most are from people who want to be here, others are already here and want to learn more about San Ramon (where I live), and others just want to get to know other people in the area. Whatever their reasons, it’s great to hear from people who also are taking the “road less traveled.” The photos throughout this blog entry are fairly random—just a smattering of our properties and our clients. Some of them I will admit were taken by clients who apparently have much better cameras than I do give the crispness of their photos vs. mine! Back in the U.S. ... read more

It’s been since March, 2008 that I updated my blog. That’s over a year! I didn’t realize it had been so long. So, just to get a few facts straight: 1. I’m still alive (and well!). 2. I’m still here in San Ramon, Costa Rica 3. The B&B is still here—and we now have super-duper high speed Internet. 4. I’m still doing tours and real estate development. 5. And, I’m still traveling the world when I can! Photos The photos throughout this entry are various scenes from the San Ramon area. What’s up!? So, what’s happened in over a year or lately? Well, I’m settling in nicely after four years of living here. No, it didn’t take me the entire time to settle in but now I’m extremely comfortable with life here. I’m more patient, take ... read more

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 some medical issues—with a clean bill of health! 2. Helped (mostly moral support) friends/colleagues transition from bad business partners to….good ones! 3. Figured out (finally!) who to work with and trust! 4. Definitely determined I ... read more

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 of going to look at a large farm in the Magallanes section of San Ramon. While we saw the property—or some of it, as it was 172 acres—it was mostly just a fun trip through ... read more

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 entries. Now I just need to figure out which two! I think the main reason I have not written is that I’ve been so busy and the only time I seem to have to write ... read more