The one thing I was certain we would not do was buy a house in Costa Rica. So of course we did. I really have to stop declaring things, since sure enough that's what I end up doing. We visited the property as a potential rental home since we really needed move at the end of our San Isidro house lease. It took about 2 seconds for Dale and Jack to fall in love with the place. We knew the current owner's were highly motivated to sell it so it seemed unlikely that we could remain long-term renters. Plus we had already experienced the pain of trying to get repairs done by landlords (We once went 6 days without a shower). So we made a low ball offer and, voila!, we own a house in Costa Rica!
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This is the main spring fed fish pond next to the front porch. The waterfall makes a lovely sound.
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| Perfect chess tables! |
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| The front porch across from the pond makes a nice outdoor living room. |
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| Apollo loves the yard! |
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| The house sits low on the property. |
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| Palm trees. |
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| The yard is almost an acre and has all kinds of exotic plants in it. |
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| The second spring pond. |
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| Home is where the trampoline is! |
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| View off the back deck. |
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| Back view of sugar cane fields. |
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| My first time to have granite counter tops in the kitchen! |
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| The dining table, covered with projects as usual. |
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| The living room. We inherited the couch and it's super comfortable! |
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| This is a great meditation spot. |
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| The upper part of the property has large juniper trees. |
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| This amazing tree is one of the cornerstones of the yard. |
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| Some of the coffee and sugar canes fields that border us. |
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| Our driveway is a third of a mile long and very private. |
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| Apollo and I spend a lot of time just walking up and down the driveway. |
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| Some of the jungle plants in the yard. |
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| Oh yeah, there's a defunct swimming pool. |
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| My command station. |
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| The upstairs addition feels like a treehouse. It's Jack's main hangout. |
