I feel about parades the way I do about about baseball: a little goes a long way. Costa Rica’s independence day was September 15, so I hitched a ride with my host parents to San Rafael de Heredia, the nearby town, for some prime people watching. No need to try to get to San Jose, […]
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Shopping For Shoes and Floored By the Feet in Heredia, Costa Rica
My feet have been “big” (size 10ish, or 41 in Euro size) since middle school. When I was a kid, the fun styles at the mall often topped out around size 8 or 9. With running shoes, I’d approach Lady Foot Locker with butterflies of lady hope in my stomach, only to be sent to […]
Streamlining My Style For A Semester Abroad (Or, The Unbearable Non-Lightness of My Suitcase)
A few days ago, I left my home in Washington state to spend the semester at my school’s campus in Costa Rica (faithful Wanderchic readers might recall that I visited this campus in January 2012 and wrote about such topics as my adventures with a microscope). Travel is quite an education. We learn about new […]