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2009.01.10: January 10, 2009: Headlines: COS - Costa Rica: Return to our Country of Service - Costa Rica: Hartford Courant: This is what it's like to travel around Costa Rica with my parents, who served in the country as Peace Corps volunteers almost 20 years ago
This is what it's like to travel around Costa Rica with my parents, who served in the country as Peace Corps volunteers almost 20 years ago
The very fortunate entourage of Doņa Mary and Don Jerry get free lodging in a beautiful cabin, lavish homemade meals, guide service, horseback rides. Whatever we want. Estan en su casa, they tell us, and they mean it.
This is what it's like to travel around Costa Rica with my parents, who served in the country as Peace Corps volunteers almost 20 years ago
Hospitality, Costa Rican Style
By Jeanne Leblanc
on January 10, 2009 2:45 PM |
A few days ago we bumped our way up a steep, rock-strewn road in a four-wheel-drive SUV, 10 miles up the side of a mountain to the Tenorio Volcano National Park in northern Costa Rica.
As we approached the ranger, my mother threw up her hands, "Wilber!"
"Doņa Mary!" he said.
This is what it's like to travel around Costa Rica with my parents, who served in the country as Peace Corps volunteers almost 20 years ago. The very fortunate entourage of Doņa Mary and Don Jerry get free lodging in a beautiful cabin, lavish homemade meals, guide service, horseback rides. Whatever we want.
Estan en su casa, they tell us, and they mean it.
On Hot Water And Gratitude
By Jeanne Leblanc
on January 11, 2009 5:50 AM |
ducha.jpgOne of the great, unremarkable pleasures of my daily life is a steaming hot shower. It just doesn't occur to me even to feel grateful for it.
But most people on this planet do without running hot water. So you might think I could handle a cold shower for a few days, especially when visiting in a tropical climate.
But I can't. And that's why I'm grateful for the suicide shower.
I'm staying in a beautiful cabin on the slopes of a mountain in northern Costa Rica. It has electricity and running water and that special combination of electricity and hot water nicknamed the ducha suicida.
In this contraption, water is heated instantly inside the showerhead as the water runs through it.
My previous encounters with this device have not been happy, but this time I'm traveling in a family group that includes my brother, Jerry. After I whined my way through one cold shower, he figured out that if you run the water at full volume for a minute and then turn it way back, you can have a comfortably warm shower.
Steaming hot - no. But plenty warm enough for me to remember to be grateful.
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