Miscellaneous Goings On

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.

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.