Head In The Clouds

It has been somewhat of an exhausting week........MENTALLY........wondering, are our heads in the clouds?   Leaving our daughter and son, our grandson, family and friends........our comfort zone here at the farm.........WHY?

My mother says it is because Sherry and I are......Gypsies! 

I think it may be that "off the wall" approach to life that we share and have shared for 35 years.  It is going to be hard leaving, but to tell you the truth......the wait to start our journey has been unnerving, stressfull, scary and at times, downright crappy.......as the Tom Petty song goes, "The Waiting Is The Hardest Part".   Sherry reminds me all to often, we should have headed back to Zancudo in April.

I needed to clean up some of my mess here at the farm though, goats needed to be sold, downsize the chicken population.......which wasn't that big of a problem when the Coyote showed up for the poultry buffet!  Bottom line, we needed to downsize our home......we are almost there, just a few things left to sell.  So,  all that is left is to spend time with our family and friends until we see them in Costa Rica.

The picture was taken just south of Cerro de la Muerte (Death Mountain) on our way to Playa Zancudo   via the Central American Highway in January 2010.  Our heads were in the clouds many times that day.  

Pura Vida!

                                                                                                                                    

Moo....... Just Talking To The Cows

Head ' em Up and Move ' em Out.......and down the beach we go!   That's Playa Zancudo for you!

We have so many pictures of cows in Costa Rica......brown ones.....white ones.....cows laying down......and even cows with birds on their backs.   Don't know why but those Costa Rican Cows just amaze us.  The breed of cattle are "Zebu" sometimes known as "Humped Cattle" and they can handle tropical climates due to a few more sweat glands......Hummm, not a bad idea, wonder where I could go to get a few extra sweat glands installed?

As in many countries, beef is expensive and is consumed in smaller amounts and eaten less frequently.........unlike the triple, quadruple, 1 pound plus meat clods we Americans whoof down all to often at any fast food chain you want to name.  Over the past few months, we have made a great effort to eat less red meat........and in fact buy less food!   Our children will clearly tell you when they visit, the food pantry can now be used as a storage closet......Old Mother Hubbards' cupboards don't have nothing on us! 

It is not that when we start our life in Zancudo we are going to starve.......far from it.....it is just a fact, there ain't no major grocery stores like Food Lion, Giant, or Harris Teeter anywhere close and....Fast Food...........Don't even think about it!   So, we make an adjustment on how we go grocery shopping with a  bike ride to the boat, a boat ride to the dock in Golfito, and a taxi to the store, back to the dock for the boat ride to Zancudo and then the bike ride to the house, it's just going to take a little longer then our 5 minute drive to Foodlion that we do now.......Right!

As we started this Blog with cows in Costa Rica let's end with a few ends of a few Costa Rican cows heading up the main road.

Pura Vida

Beach Bums

The title says it all, we are beach bums...........yesterday we spent the day on Fenwick Island State Beach as we have for so many Sundays summer after summer........yet our thoughts kept drifting away from the mass of umbrellas, fishing poles, beach chairs and PEOPLE........day dreaming of Playa Zancudo. 

The picture above is Playa Zancudo looking north towards the mouth of the Rio Coto river and the jungle above Golfito......we have walked this beach many morning in solitude with only the sounds of the jungle and sea.  It is our driving force for our journey.

It seems our time here at the farm has been dragging along, lately.  We continue to be on task with the downsizing of our life...... Turning off your cell phones is not as easy as you think...... Have you read your contract lately!   And really, giving up our Dodge Megacab for 2 bicycles ain't going to be easy either.......I feel a sore bottom coming on.......well, we still have 170 days left to toughen that area up.   Pura Vida