Just another day
Sunday! Day of rest and all that.
Ours started out a little different than usual as we took a mini road trip up the coast. The biggest motivator was that we had use of a rental 4Runner for a few hours in the morning and thought we would take advantage. We've reduced Sandy to necessary adventures only right now because it seems Steve punctured the radiator last week when he went sloggin around south of here. It still holds water pretty well, but just pretty well. We don't trust the local mechanic to do a good job of soldering it, and the guy in Santa Cruz couldn't fix it when we went there, so we'll have to go up to Liberia next week. Oh, the joys of car maintenance and repair in Costa Rica.
We didn't go far on our little Sunday outing, but did stop off and check out some beautiful property with nice views, including some great ocean views when there aren't clouds in the way. Only $250K for nearly 50 acres! Wow.
The 4Runner, incidentally, drives great. Not a big motor under the hood, but Steve is getting more and more convinced that for an SUV there really isn't a better motor than a turbo-diesel. Great mileage (we averaged a bit over 30mpg- most of that driving slowly on bad dirt roads with frequent braking and acceleration), good low-end torque, and enough pep when you need it on account of the turbo kicking in. The whole package was surprisingly quiet as well. The US government and auto industry are really cheating people by making it so difficult to get a turbo-diesel motor, especially in light of the fact that it is remarkably easy to get SUV's that get 12-15 mpg. Just plain stupid.
Finished the afternoon off by arguing with the puppy over her crate training. Ugh. We seem to be making progress, but it comes as no surprise that she really prefers to hang out at our feet, not in her crate. If she could just learn to let us know more than 10 seconds before she pees, there would be no problem!
In the evening Steve took her over to play with her parents and two siblings, that seemed to tire her out sufficiently that she slept quietly in her crate while we enjoyed a nice barbecue meal (Rudy's Bar-BQ Sause, good stuff) and a ferocious but short-lived storm.
Ours started out a little different than usual as we took a mini road trip up the coast. The biggest motivator was that we had use of a rental 4Runner for a few hours in the morning and thought we would take advantage. We've reduced Sandy to necessary adventures only right now because it seems Steve punctured the radiator last week when he went sloggin around south of here. It still holds water pretty well, but just pretty well. We don't trust the local mechanic to do a good job of soldering it, and the guy in Santa Cruz couldn't fix it when we went there, so we'll have to go up to Liberia next week. Oh, the joys of car maintenance and repair in Costa Rica.
We didn't go far on our little Sunday outing, but did stop off and check out some beautiful property with nice views, including some great ocean views when there aren't clouds in the way. Only $250K for nearly 50 acres! Wow.
The 4Runner, incidentally, drives great. Not a big motor under the hood, but Steve is getting more and more convinced that for an SUV there really isn't a better motor than a turbo-diesel. Great mileage (we averaged a bit over 30mpg- most of that driving slowly on bad dirt roads with frequent braking and acceleration), good low-end torque, and enough pep when you need it on account of the turbo kicking in. The whole package was surprisingly quiet as well. The US government and auto industry are really cheating people by making it so difficult to get a turbo-diesel motor, especially in light of the fact that it is remarkably easy to get SUV's that get 12-15 mpg. Just plain stupid.
Finished the afternoon off by arguing with the puppy over her crate training. Ugh. We seem to be making progress, but it comes as no surprise that she really prefers to hang out at our feet, not in her crate. If she could just learn to let us know more than 10 seconds before she pees, there would be no problem!
In the evening Steve took her over to play with her parents and two siblings, that seemed to tire her out sufficiently that she slept quietly in her crate while we enjoyed a nice barbecue meal (Rudy's Bar-BQ Sause, good stuff) and a ferocious but short-lived storm.
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# posted by Steve Broyles @ 6/14/2004 03:32:00 PM 
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