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My dad’s a mechanic, so there has never been a shortage of cars in my family.  My brothers and I have been pretty lucky because we’ve always had a car whenever we wanted, and never had to pay for it.  My dad drives a 4WD truck, my mom a 4-Runner, my brother a Lexus, and [...]

My pop ups are under control now, but only temporarily. I went to www.downloads.com and found "Super Ad Blocker," but it’s only a 15 day trial, then it’s $30 to buy. That’s enough time to find my ad-blocker software somewhere on my laptop (I haven’t even fully unpacked yet). Another reason I didn’t blog yesterday: [...]

I’ve been wanting to post every day that I’ve been back… I mean, it’s not like I have a job or anything. Since I’ve been back, I’ve been inundated with pop up ads everytime I’ve been online. Even just writing these last two sentences, I’ve been intrupted five times! And every time, I have to [...]

Being back home for the last two days, and I’m overwhelmed by what to watch.  When I was in L.A., my relatives had some kind of box (perfectly legal and can be bought on eBay for $160) that lets you get 600+ channels!!  I just have regular cable TV, but it’s still a myriad of [...]

This is my second full day of being home in Oregon.  It?s been an interesting couple days of travel since I left Ras at the San Jose airport in Costa Rica.  I arrived early at the airport and was going to buy something to eat, but changed my mind when I saw how expensive prices [...]

I’m currently in Alajuela with Ras, arriving here from Montezuma via bus, ferry, and bus.  We’re in a PC room (or internet cafe, as everyone outside of Korea calls it), burning the pictures we’ve taken onto a CD for me to take home tomorrow – 2 Gigs worth!  I’ve put the idea of going home [...]

Where did I leave off? We left Quepos and Manuel Antonio and headed out to Uvita. Looking back upon it, I’m not really even sure why we went south. We had considered going to the peninsula at the bottom of Costa Rica to see the internationally acclaimed nature reserve there. It didn’t take a lot [...]

We’re now in Jaco after leaving Manuel Antonio and going to Uvita for two days.  We’ll be here for another two days, then off to Montezuma.  It’ll be my last beach until I fly home to Oregon on March 21st.  No pictures to post now, just checking email and letting everone know that things are [...]

We’re in Manuel Antonio right now… one of the busiest tourist places in Costa Rica.  I can see why – the beach and the national park is great.  Unfortunately, things are expensive here (compared to other parts of Costa Rica).  We’re staying in Quepos, a ten minute and 25 cent bus ride from Manuel Antonio [...]