Skip to main content

June 10, 2025

Another day in Pura vida. Still navigating the differences we've encountered since being here. Having to continually remind myself to look outside or even go outside and look at where I am to ground myself. We're out in the country, which is what we wanted, but we are quite a ways away from town. Makes it a little difficult if you get hungry and don't see anything you want in the fridge. Today marks a week since landing here. Things take time to adjust. I read somewhere where the average person takes 3 months to settle in to a new environment. I guess I'll update this in 3 months and let you know how it went. 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Finding Pura Vida. A Short Story by Matthew Barron

June 20, 2025

So before we left Kansas we called all of the companies we had utilities through. We called Cox, Evergy, Water/trash and Gas. We dropped off our router back to Cox, Evergy sent us a refund check, I guess because they over charged us somewhere, no surprise there. Water/Trash sent us a final bill and so did Gas. Now let's flash forward a couple weeks. We left Kansas for Missouri, and then Missouri for Costa Rica. On day 3 Evergy charges us $56, we think, eh whatever, that's probably for something we don't know about, that'll be the end of that. Then, this morning, Evergy again, charges us $13. We check our account, someone dropped the ball, it was never closed. At some point today we'll have to call and see what's up. Also, we have a pending gas bill for something that's supposed to come out in July, guess we'll be making another phone call for that too.  Automated systems are a good idea in theory, until the people running the systems don't hit the bu...