Usually a post regarding my tax dollars would be more than likely a complaint. Not today. I'm pleased as punch to report that our friends David and Jennifer (they whose backpack was stolen last week) obtained temporary passports at the US embassy in San Jose in just three hours. Wow. I'm amazed. Astonished. Astounded.... and just a little curious how it is that someone in a foreign country, having only a poorly faxed copy of their driver's license, can get a passport in three hours, while it took me, with all sorts of identification (including an old passport!), nearly SIX WEEKS to get a new passport in California!! Ok, see, the very thought of taxes reminded me of the horror of getting public services. And it reminds me that while living in Costa Rica is full of government-related difficulty, occasionally people here manage to get things done quickly and efficiently. Maybe even more so than back in the USA.

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