Blogs from Jaco, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 6

Hola and Welcome! As you can see from the title, this episode will take us from the high country of an altitude of 1639 meters back to sea level. Quick math...39 inches to the meter... X 1639 is umm 5327 feet. However, before getting into the meat of our story this time, I want to share with you information about getting around Costa Rica. Most of you are now thinking that he is going to talk about transportation, however I want to share with you stories about our GPS. We have a GPS in the states. It is a great invention and we love it! She sits in the cab of our truck happily pointing out the best direction to go and gives us plenty of notice and also in a sweet voice corrects our mistakes ... read more

Greetings fellow bloggers and wanna- bees. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you! I hope that as you read this blog today, you are enjoying family and friends over a warm fire with eggnog and turkey, ham or your favorite (as in our case, Cabio). Yep, you guessed it.....horse. Ok, when in Rome do as the Romans do. More on Cabio in a bit. Laura and I spent our first Christmas in the tropics. Let see, how much can be said for having Christmas in a different country... Lots. it seems as though we have been down this road before. A few years ago we were in Puerto Rico for Christmas. It was a total drag & we could not wait to get home to family and have what was considered a normal ... read more

Hola Everyone Having a really relaxed time and enjoying my last few hours in my thirties! Weather has been great although surf been quiet for a few days, picked up again earlier so caught a few. Marlon, a guy who works at our hotel took us out to a local drinking haunt to play pool - was a top night and really interesting to compare life in the Uk to his. Aside from the obvious our countries are pretty similar - same social issues such as immirgration, governments taking too much tax etc! Marlon has also been helping me practice my Spanish as well as the maids every morning who have to put up with my attempts at conversation too! Definitely in the zone now and enjoying time in a place where deadlines just don't exist ... read more

Salut vous autres Le passage a Jaco a ete bien mais cest un autre monde... tout est dispendieux et cest tres touristique. il faisait aussi tres tres chaud. Nous sommes alles dans un hotel dont le proprietaire est un quebecois. cetait bien mais on a jamais des chambres tres haut de gamme. Cetait un vrai fourneau. on dort en moyenne pour 10 dollars. ensuite nous avons suivi la route pour Tarcoles. Nous sommes alles visiter le jardin pura vida qui est vraiment exceptionnel. Cest a cet endroit ou nous avons vu le plus bel oiseau du monde, le aras. Eh oui, le perroquet avec toutes les couleurs... on avait la larme a loeil.. aussi on avait une vue magnifique sur la plus haute cascade du costa rica, 200m et tres impressionnante a la saison des pluies. ... read more

Gosh, where does the time go? Seems like we just arrived. Well this Central American country insists that you leave every 90 days, until you have established residency. We will be working on that but probably not for another year or until you know who starts receiving his Social Security. Laura is one step ahead of me, but we need to show a combined income and we are not wanting to ship our retirement down here just yet. So that means we leave the country every 90 days. This is a little sticky at times, only becasuse Gringos think it means 3 months. The costa Rican government , on the other hand looks for the ones waiting for the 91, or 92nd day. Those are the ones that do not get to come back. Not wanting ... read more