I had been itching to try out my new slick video camera and wanted to take the train again so I mixed the two together and, voila! A couple of friends and I decided to take the first afternoon train up to Heredia, mostly for the ride (nothing against Heredia, but it has even FEWER
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San Jose is not Disneyworld. Now, you can take that a lot of different ways. We don’t have (a lot of) people dressed up like cartoon animals, for example. We don’t have rides, we have casinos. After you’ve seen the gold museum (yawn) and the jade museum (ditto) there’s really not a lot left. And
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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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I just flew back from California, and BOY ARE MY ARMS TIRED! But seriously folks… I spent about 10 days back on my native soil. We all know it’s different than Costa Rica, but the things we notice most are different from person to person. I will try my best not to make this too
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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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If you look at a map of Costa Rica, and pay attention to the Pacific Coastline, you’ll see two very large peninsulas jutting out from the mainland, each with it’s own bay. The larger of the two is Peninsula Nicoya, and the smaller the Osa Peninsula. Osa is much less visited than its big brother
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