Lost Without Translation

Costa Rica News – ”Stop the car!” I yelled at my husband. “Maybe that guy knows where the place is.”This is an all too familiar cry when we are driving anywhere in the Central Valley. We are both excellent drivers, but the bulk of the driving has fallen to him. I invariably ride shotgun, acting as

No Direction Home

It used to be when you asked for directions in Costa Rica you got something akin to rural American farmer directions: “Just go up the old road past the Van Cleef’s place and when you get to the intersection where the oak tree was struck by lightening, turn north.”