I spent the first few days with my friends Steve and Frances Stizzo in my old hometown of Roseville. Steve and I go back to when I was still in high school and he was in JUNIOR high. We’ve played together off and on ever since, sometimes in bands together for years at a time.
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Oh, to be in the Sacramento valley in August, the scent of eggs frying on sidewalks… Despite the baking heat and the fact that I don’t have a car, I am going back for a visit to my old stomping grounds in the middle of August. The occasion is a reunion of a band I
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(photo from La Nacion, online. The new San Jose to Caldera highway, which was opened to traffic on Wednesday, January 27, got its first real workout Saturday, when Ticos and visitors alike flocked to try out the new shortcut to the beach. Let’s start with the good news. The surface is good. Nice and smooth.
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(photo from insidecostarica.com, Jan 28, 2010) The new San Jose to Caldera highway officially opened yesterday, January 27, to lots of hoopla and protests. Since I wrote my first little flyover post on the new San Jose to Caldera highway, I have come into possession of a little more information that is worth passing on.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines! When you look at a map of Costa Rica, and you look at the distance between San Jose and Caldera would seem to be almost nothing, but for anyone who has driven or taken the bus to the coast, it’s hardly a picnic, walk in the park, piece of
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According to an article in the Jan. 19 edition of Diario Extra, the Sala IV court has ordered that the trains running between San Jose and Heredia try to keep the noise down. A woman in Heredia complained that the noise of the train horns was causing her severe physical and emotional problems. Having heard
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