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A Clammy Memorial Day
For Memorial Day 2009 we decided to take advantage of the tides coinciding with the holiday to go to Clam Gulch and dig us some clams. After all a man has to be the hunter gatherer for his family....
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Holiday Roads
Traveling is always a chore with a large family. Shoot, it takes us 25 minutes to figure out how we are getting to church every Sunday, and we go every Sunday! Are we taking the van or two cars? Do you...
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Back to life, back to reality
What is a vacation? Can you have a true vacation while still at home? I think not. I think vacations are getting away from all the daily things in your life; work , meetings, appointments, clubs,...
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Make a run to the border
Until we have our residency here in Costa Rica we have to depart the country every 90 days. They don’t care where you go, just as long as you go. So this time we made a run for the border with some...
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The March of Fires
Fully enveloped in the dry season now for months, the earth all around us is covered in crinkly dry leaves, yellow dry grass and dry tinder branches. This combined with 30-40 mph winds makes this whole...
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Songs, Sermons, Sushi; an Epic Gang Youth Group Event
As I have mentioned many times before, you have to be creative when trying to plan activities in this region of the world. It is even far more difficult when trying to plan for youth group events,...
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An Adventure at La Montana
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to participate in a men’s retreat adventure at La Montana near Arenal. We decided early on that since this event was strictly for men, the word retreat must be...
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The early birds
It has become readily apparent to us that the Costa Rican day is vastly different that the good ole American day. You see there is very little difference in the day throughout the year here, the sun...
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Gypsies
Gypsies, that is what they call us. We are wandering, homeless and wearing really wild and crazy clothes. Okay, our clothes aren’t that crazy, but we are currently homeless and wandering. If you...
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Too convenient
It is frightenedly easy to flow back into the American lifestyle, as we are doing. It is scary because we can easily become accustomed to having all the conveniences that we used to know and then some,...
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