Jon Walker's Costa Rican adventure
Dec. 1st, 2011 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorstkwrningAccording to his FB and music Tumblr, he and his wife have moved to Costa Rica for six months and are "doing some writing, reading and thinking." (And also learning Spanish.) They are, I am not making this up, apparently living in a cabin formerly owned by an eccentric Italian nudist.
Updates will be on junglewalkers.tumblr.com should any of you be interested. The "journal" excerpt up right now appears to be from Cassie's journal, not his, and I'm expecting both of them will be updating in the future.
Information on Costa Rica: Wikipedia ; Offical Tourism Site .
Short version: It's one of the few, if not the only, stable democracies / countries in Central America. The Army was abolished (!) in 1949 and there's a 94% literacy rate. Education and health care are good. They're working towards becoming a carbon neutral nation. Tourism is (obviously) a major industry and ecotourism is particularly big, also key are pharmaceuticals, financial outsourcing, and software development; the three biggest cash crops are coffee, bananas and pineapples.
Basically, JWalk has chosen his escape wisely. The weather is tropical and should be delightful as the "dry" (non-hurricane) season is from December to April.
I am still kind of boggling a little bit, because he upped and moved to Costa Rica, but I have to admit I'm looking forward to reading about his (their) experiences there.
YOUR MOVE, RYAN ROSS.
Updates will be on junglewalkers.tumblr.com should any of you be interested. The "journal" excerpt up right now appears to be from Cassie's journal, not his, and I'm expecting both of them will be updating in the future.
Information on Costa Rica: Wikipedia ; Offical Tourism Site .
Short version: It's one of the few, if not the only, stable democracies / countries in Central America. The Army was abolished (!) in 1949 and there's a 94% literacy rate. Education and health care are good. They're working towards becoming a carbon neutral nation. Tourism is (obviously) a major industry and ecotourism is particularly big, also key are pharmaceuticals, financial outsourcing, and software development; the three biggest cash crops are coffee, bananas and pineapples.
Basically, JWalk has chosen his escape wisely. The weather is tropical and should be delightful as the "dry" (non-hurricane) season is from December to April.
I am still kind of boggling a little bit, because he upped and moved to Costa Rica, but I have to admit I'm looking forward to reading about his (their) experiences there.
YOUR MOVE, RYAN ROSS.
