It’s official - I’m an honourary Tica! Hernan Agustin Carazo gave me this certificate. Although we moved to Costa Rica sight unseen, we did plenty of research beforehand and were prepared to fully embrace a new culture.
Soleida, our housekeeper, gave me this Schlumbergera cactus and it is loaded with blooms:
This article on the best places to retire in 2024 details several countries. Costa Rica is rated #1 and is at the end of the article. What interested me about all the countries listed is the high quality of health care available in each one.
ARCR (Association of Residents of Costa Rica) has recently published the 2024 November-December issue of its
EL RESIDENTE magazine. Lance and I are members of ARCR.
The magazine contains many articles and references which may be of general interest or to those planning a visit or move to Costa Rica.
By the way, and for quite some time, the right hand sidebar of my blog included a widget that identified worldwide locations from which visits to the blog were being received. Sometime yesterday it stopped doing so. No rotating globe or other information appears in the panel below the heading "VISITS SINCE 9/29/2016".
The ongoing source of the information was RevolverMaps and I now have a message that the website is "down for everyone" and not just me. It appears they have failed to renew their HTTPS security certificate. If the problem is not fixed, then I may try something different.
Update
On November 16, the following message appeared when trying to access or use the RevolverMaps website: "RevolverMaps has shut down. Many thanks to all users and supporters of the service!"
I am now trying an alternative service called "ClustrMaps". Its primary purpose is to enable a name or address search in the U.S. But, it also provides a widget that logs the locations of visits to a website or blog from anywhere in the world. A globe display of that widget now appears in the right hand sidebar of my blog. The number of identified locations (green dots) is sparse and just beginning but will increase with time.
If you click on the globe, that should bring up a separate page with a world map projection and detailed visitor location information. Strictly, the location information for any visitor is apt to be the location of the server of the visitor's ISP (Internet Service Provider). That location may not necessarily coincide with the visitor's physical location.