Heredia, Alajuela

Here are a few blurry snapshots taken with the cheap, obsolete phone: Many of the sidewalks in the old parts of the cities here are made with nicely finished slices of lava from the surrounding volcanoes. At the end of a warm day, the sun was setting at the end of the street, blinding my [...]

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Pitahaya

I’d seen this odd looking fruit in the grocery store a few times and was intrigued. It looked like a cross between a pineapple and an entire branch of bananas. Ileana said she’d tried it once and it wasn’t good, but eventually, we asked the produce guy and he said it was good. The ones [...]

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Pictures of the Sky

A reader commented that this is an awesome photo, and I guess it is, for a dinky 640×480 phone picture. What was really awesome was being at the hair salon near Palacio de Deportes waiting for Ily’s six hour hair appointment to end, and seeing this amazing light out in the street. I bolted out [...]

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