Many of you know that OKC swept Phoenix in Round 1 and the Lakers in Round 2, so back in OKC, there was lots of downtime for Chet. This happened to be over the date of Chet’s birthday, This allowed…
Leaving Costa Rica for Points NBA
Our exit from Costa Rica’s tropical paradise ultimately needed to get us back to where the bus was patiently waiting, in South Texas. Since we RARELY do anything according to the most direct route, this included a detour to New…
Pura Vida in the Rearview: Conclusions
So, as many of you know, one of our reasons for an extended visit to Costa Rica is tied to our ongoing search for “the” (or at least “A”) place to land once we finish our Bluebird nomadancy [sic]. I…
Pura Vida Winding Down
As I write this, we are hanging out in Jacó, which is our last stop in Costa Rica. We’ll catch you up, then discuss Jaco and Costa Rica in retrospect. We left Tamarindo by public bus, headed towards Puntarenas. We…
Pura Vida Yada Yada
Our transfer from Monteverde towards the west coast began with a “Costa Rican Massage.” We had arranged a transfer to Liberia via a private car, who’s charming driver, Minor, was replete with lots of Costa Rican Folk wisdom. The total…
Pura Vida 2
So, we have now been through many parts of Costa Rica in terms of its regions, people and various climates. First thing to realize is that the distances are actually short, even though driving times are relatively long. If you…
Pura Vida Begins!
Well, after full and unqualified approval from several of my new besties (cardiologists), we have arrived in Costa Rica!! Our first stop was an overnight in Dallas, where we planned to overlap our orbit with Aussie friend, Norman Same, who…
Not coming no more for Breakfast…
It’s been a bad few weeks/months…with friends facing health challenges and worse. In the past week, Liz’s brother John passed, and so we’ve been feeling a little melancholy as we travel. John’s passing was not unexpected, but still hard. We…
The RGV, and Day Drinking on the Fun Side of the Wall!!!
While in South Texas, we participated in what may turn out to be an annual ritual: Birthday Sushi for Liz! We discovered a Sushi Restaurant in McAllen that is really quite excellent! We did this last year, but a month…
Leaving the North BARELY ahead of Winter
After seeing Docs in Chicago, we started our route south. Since we make it a habit and rule to stop and visit friends if they are even remotely “on the way,” we stopped to visit the Enfingers in Tennessee. On…