Day 11: Did I Really Just DO That?!

Jon and his carpenter finally were ready to put in our curtains and the bed foundation. He was here for several hours doing that. Meanwhile Diego invited us up to his house to see his herb and vegetable garden and we wanted to go but realized we had to be here because the guy was…

Read More

Day 10 Of Our Move To Costa Rica

It is now Day 12 and I am going back to catch up on the last 2 days but I have lost track of time  – not because we are doing nothing, but the opposite – each day has been a blur of activity. I have lost track of what happened on Sunday. I know…

Read More

So It Took 9 Days To Find and Get A Used Car

I was able to pick up the car today at Benito’s so I had asked Jon if he might be going into San Ramon and he said yes but he wasn’t sure what time. I figured whenever he went, I could go with him, so no problem. But then Benito called and said he had…

Read More

Bought A Car But We Still Have No Car! (Day 8)

We got up early again to return the car but I looked at the plan of our house before we left and realized that the size of the house was not what we had agreed to – or so it seemed to me. It looks AWFULLY SMALL when looking at the layout of the foundation!…

Read More

Well, We Bought A Car, Sort Of… (Day 7)

We got up and went in to San Ramon to look at the GEO Tracker at 9am. Charlie went with us and we drove up to the farm to check out the car. I drove part of the way and he drove part of the way. It drove well and made it up the hill…

Read More

Day 6: Finally Bought A Used Car – I Think!

Got up around 7am and it was colder than I expected sleeping in our new rental just down the road from our own property. I expected it to be warm at night or at least barely cool but in fact for me it felt cold and I got up in the night to get another…

Read More

Day 4: STILL Looking for a good used car in Costa Rica

Got up early to look for a car. Decided we liked the Hyundai Galloper diesel 4×4 so went looking for various ones to look at that might be cheaper than the one our friend-of-a-friend showed us. He wanted $8400 which seems high even for Tico car prices which tend to be almost double U.S. prices…

Read More

Day 3 – Still looking for a car to buy

Today we looked at 2 more cars: A 1997 Hyndai Galloper which was beat up inside on the seats because the guy used it to haul supplies. but the engine and tranny seemed really strong and it had NO problem going up the hill to our finca. I felt it was a very solid car…

Read More

Moving To Costa Rica: Day 2

DAY 2 Nov 31 The 2nd day started late because we had only slept maybe 3 hours in the last 36 hours – no kidding – due to having to be completely OUT of our apartment the day we were leaving. As it turns out this was a much more time consuming job than we…

Read More