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I’m dismayed. Years ago, in Costa Rica, all of us were excited as kids at Christmas because we finally had cellphones. It wasn’t long before people started to complain bitterly at how poorly their phones worked, despite living in a 3,000-person backwater town on the sleepy coast of a 3rd world country. Then came more [...]
The one and only Land Cruiser turns 60. Happy Birthday, Land Cruiser! We have certainly been glad to have used our various (four now) Cruisers in their various configurations, here is a quick retrospective of the various builds that we have driven: Our very first outing in Baja California, in our first Land Cruiser. Also [...]
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Got up to a muggy morning and took the dog and the Dad to the beach for a quick surf. Caly and Dad played stick, when the two other dogs would let them. I surfed. The water was glassy and clean, the waves were waist to chest high, and three good friends were in the [...]
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Long day, but I think that it was pretty typical of how things go squirrely here and some of the beauty of living in Costa Rica. I got up around sunrise to get an early start on the day and get a long list of things done. After making sure that I had the tools [...]
Nothing gets you up on the roof faster than realizing that the first “real” rain of the season might be starting, and that there are six months worth of dead leaves filling your gutters. My first reaction when the pitter-patter began was to head out to our lovely outdoor patio upstairs to watch the sunset [...]
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