12. The valley just outside of San Jose - The weather is always around 70 and lovely with a Pacific or Atlantic breeze everyday.
13. Juan who told us of many things - In his spare time he is a Pentacostal minister. There is a wave of Christian conversions in Costa Rica away from the Catholic Church to more active Protestant faiths.
34. “ The Soda”, where everyone yells to buy thier snacks. The Costa Rican version of “The Caf” - The counter is round and there is no line - Just mayhem!
41. Sari, Minor’s lovely wife who paints...She is painting a picture of the house Juan Santamaria burned down to defeat William Walker’s filibuster troops.
42. A Painting of the Meson that was burned in the fight against William Walker
64. Kender riding the calves....Where is OSHA when you need them?! Life is a little more lax down there. Not as many rules, and a lot more common sense.
75. This is a “Matapalo”, used for fences . It never rots and when planted, it grows again... You can see through the trunk as well...It grows around existing trees and kills them
89. A colonial church at Nicoya, the main town in the “olla de calefaccion”... Named the pressure cooker due to its heat.
90. Some Germans bought hundreds of acres and are planting “melina” trees to make paper - This used to be full of trees, but it was decimated by loggers.
92. Garza another beautiful beach...the whole coast is filled with these beaches and hardly anyone there. No one is allowed to own ocean front property - They buy a govt. lease
126. Old Colonial saw - much of Costa Rica rain forest was ruined and decimated by logging companies that sold hardwood to Europe and the US.
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129. David at Condovac on the Nicoya Penninsula - Many of the Costa Ricans with a little money belong to clubs where they can go and relax without being bothered.
130. This is a complex that has time share, hotel, and condominiums all in one ... It is very easy to buy and own land in Costa Rica for an “extranjero (foreigner)”
204. Students in Costa Rica don’t change classes, the teachers do, so many of these kids have been in the same room with the same people for a long time!
213. Falcon stationary as we climbed… winds are so constant and strong, sometimes 80 mph.
214. On top of the hill…Monteverde rainforest preserve…27000 acres.
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216. Lunch at El Establo hotel…many of the hotels owned by Quakers who came to avoid arrest in US as conscientious objectors to the War and started dairy farms in the ’50’s.
217. Can you count the 6 people on this ATV? – A common form of transportation, the other is dirt bike.
