We’ve been staying in Atenas at a bed & breakfast named Ana’s Place . This joint is in the most run down part of town down at the botto...

What a grand Tuesday we were having! I was awakened by my lungs trying to suck my CPAP face mask up in through my nostrils. Then I became co...

Much of the purpose of this trip to Costa Rica was designed to get everything squared away so that construction of our little garage/apartme...

Yep. Another wonderful trip to Costa Rica. But this one had some twists. We left Houston on a drearily dark day with storms raging around th...

We have finalized our plans for a week's vacation in Costa Rica after the Thanksgiving holiday. While we are there we will spend some t...

For those of you curious about the landslide in Atenas, Costa Rica, I found this published in La Nacion on Friday, October 12, 2007. The gr...

The other day, I saw some Tiger Repellant Spray on sale at the hardware store. I bought it and brought it home. Later, I sprayed it all over...

Our Spanish instructor reminded me of a technique for expanding one's vocabulary by watching soap operas on television in Spanish. I had...