OUR RETIRED ADVENTURE
qUEREMOS VIVIR AL SOL
KSha
Costa Rica is amazing! Beauty abounds.
Panama is "home" for now. Loving life!
South America is next! Columbia here we come.
Costa Rica is amazing! Beauty abounds.
Panama is "home" for now. Loving life!
South America is next! Columbia here we come.
We have yet to find some live monkeys in the area; although NGG has spotted some beautiful yellow birds, a crane (or egret?), some fat iguanas and squirrels that look like skunks (gonna need to get a pic of those as they are weird looking). Mango season may be the best time around Coco for the howlers to come back--that's not until Jan./Feb. Some recent development, we are told, has taken down some of the trees that they have frequented in the past in the area so we're not sure as to our probability of sightings. Our second venture to the Buzzed Monkey proved to be better for the Kevster, who came out smoking as the 29 board went back into action. We came for the "famous" smoked brisket and were disappointed when that arrived on site later than planned and wasn't ready as touted. Besides Sha getting smoked 4 games to nil, we enjoyed an order of smoked pulled pork, smoked beans and mac-n-cheese. I had begun this post at the one week mark, yesterday, and it dawned on me that we had been here for a week; but it felt like we had been here seven days. That post got swallowed by the ghosts in the ether when we lost internet connection for most of the day yesterday. I thought I was funny...hoping that it can carry over today. The Farmer's Market we had planned to visit yesterday afternoon was empty when we arrived. Hmmm. Found out that the market got moved to today (Friday) so that the dance event (and lessons) could coincide together and draw a bigger crowd. We will find out later today if I can dance Costa Rican. We didn't let our 3 block walk go unrewarded though. The market is in an area outside a hotel and has the Garden Bar in the middle of the market area. We had heard that the sushi was very good here; so we sat down for a try. We found a wine we thought "read well" and ordered a glass and a spicy tuna roll. Darn tootin' good. We thought another glass sounded good and added a dragon roll to help it go down. Good choices and we enjoyed. Sha let the stray gato (cat) lick our plates off, then we walked home with our headlamp on. We've awoke each day to a beautiful sunny day that starts in the high 70's and by 9 AM it's in the mid 80's for the day. Sha's still sweating on me during our morning walks--but I don't mind. The tide was high this morning and cut us off from the Ocotal end of the beach, so we walked through a few neighborhoods on our return home. On different corners, some days you'll see a little stand with someone selling fruits and/or vegetables. We've seen a woman selling these spikey looking strawberries on the corner of the street we turn to go home from town. We finally were prepared with 1000 Colones to buy a kilo of these spikey things; Mamon chinos at the end of our walk this morning. We are both trying to come up with descriptive words to describe the taste...delicious is the easiest; but it is sweet and firm around a seed inside, maybe plum-like... Won't be the last kilo of those we buy!
Sha is attempting to fix one of our pool rafts that has a slight leak as we relax after lunch. Getting ready to hit the pool for the early afternoon session...I hear the neighbors talking at the pool so we'll have to be going so we can catch the "latest". Enjoying the beauty of CR! Pura Vida!!
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