or – How Media Saturation Robs Us Of Our Joy or – an original thought is a good thing I was but a wee lad in the 60’s in Davis California, not far from San Francisco with all of its cultural innovations – free love, music, outlandish dress and of […]
Life Evolves in The Zone
It is a well-known fact that the import duties, taxes, stamps etc… for bringing a car into Costa Rica are exorbitant. They run somewhere between 50% & 70% depending on how new the car is. They tax newer cars less than older cars, hoping that this will improve the quality […]
Cars in Costa Rica
This article was written for my Costa Rica real estate blog. Hence the references to real estate. I felt that the topics considered here were better suited to Dominical Dot Biz. So I move it. The Life of a Costa Rica Real Estate Guy If you are wondering about the […]
The Missing Element in Costa Rica – Culture
Selecting a vacation rental in Dominical, Costa Rica can be a daunting task. If you peruse through the listings here on dominical.biz, you’ll find that there are numerous vacation rentals to choose from. Although there are so many vacation rentals in the Dominical area, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover that […]
Dominical Vacation Rentals Selection Guide
I’ve had one of those “that stuff happens to OTHER people and not to me” experiences. I was beat up and left for dead by a criminal – hmmmm. I can honestly say that I never thought of that sort of thing as happening to me. I’ve certainly read about […]
A Fascination With The Love
In the previous article, we established a couple points that help one stick with the formidable project of learning to speak a second language namely, Spanish. To re-cap: It is a huge project that will take longer than you think. It is hard for everybody (except for the extremely rare […]
Make as Many Mistakes As You Can
There is an awful lot of emphasis put on life enrichment these days. We see it when we turn on the TV, listen to the radio, surf the web. Walk into a book store and there is likely a display of books on how to be happier, healthier and live […]
Learn Spanish – It’s Really, Really, Really Hard
“The chance to have a second life in the same body. A life immersed in nature, and immersed in culture. This would be to get involved in what is here as opposed to what I had already lived”. After reading my article in Raven’s flagship Montañas al Mar publication last […]