This morning I told John it was time for a "day off" from the daily grind of retirement and we needed to go on a road trip to some...

We seem to have misplaced a couple of good friends. The last time we saw them was when we went to have lunch with them at the beautiful hom...

Hooray!  The city water supply, AyA, is back up and running.  No more operating toilets with jugs of bottled water.  We can shower!  We can ...

We have an Yigüirro (ee-gear-row) that has fallen in love with it's reflection in our dining room window. It flits between the mango tre...

If you've ever wondered what our place is like, you can finally see our hogar (home) in Google Earth. For years we've been looking...

What a treat we been enjoying this week. John brined a fresh ham and cooked it in our wood fired stone oven. The ham is just delicious and ...

The native language in Costa Rica is Spanish, or español. It is one of several of the romance languages and it's alphabet, unlike Engli...

'T was the night before Christmas, and all through la casa, Not a creature was stirring: ¡Caramba! ¿Qué pasa? Los niños were all tuck...