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SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA 🇨🇷: DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA MUJER – EQUAL RIGHTS MARCH 2019

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8mar19. San Jose, Costa Rica 🇨🇷

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA 🇨🇷: new religion

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7mar19. San Jose, Costa Rica 🇨🇷

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA FOOD: SODA RIVERA

Published on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel4 Comments

A soda is a traditional “Mom and Pop” Costa Rican restaurant where the food is cheap and delicious. Soon after I arrived to the city in mid-February, I was on one of my explorative jaunts which always, never rarely, find me lost. But, lost is good for me. It’s how I find the unique things cities have to offer. Soda Rivera is so off-the-beaten path, that it doesn’t have a website or any mentions I could find on the internet, so I can’t even give you the address.

I wasn’t necessarily looking for a place to eat yet. Wasn’t actually hungry. What drew me to the place was this image of this man painting. The street art documenter in me was intrigued. I was just going to get a couple of shots and move on.

I must’ve stood out like a sore thumb, because this man, I think the manager, came out to greet me and usher me inside. Look at his sweet smile. I couldn’t tell him no.

He sat me down and then said some things to his staff, who then came over to help me and take my order.

Some Ticos (Costa Ricans) enjoying their lunches.

My first Chicken Casado in Costa Rica! And I was not disappointed. The plate was HUGE and it cost about $3.50 (usd) = 2100-2300 colones, if I remember correctly. A **casado** (Spanish, “married man”) is a Costa Rican meal using rice, black beans, plantains, salad, a tortilla, and an optional entrée that may include chicken, beef, pork, fish and so on. The term may have originated when restaurant customers asked to be treated as *casados*, since married men ate such meals at home. **Another theory is that the rice and beans and/or the grouping of dishes are *married*, since they are always together.** (wiki)

Close-up because…damn! Salad, Red beans, Plantains, chicken, rice, diced potatoes, onions…what a happy marriage!

It was amazing to eat in a full-on Tico establishment, with no other foreigners around. My seat was the open one you see across the counter between the man in the baseball cap and the (only other) woman.

I happened upon it again a couple of weeks later, but I still don’t know where it is. But, you can see the sign has been finished.

Fresh melon juice included with your meal. Ticos tend to drink juices with their meals, rather than water.

I like to see big jugs of picante sauce.

I highly recommend this place if you can find it. It’s total pura vida.

FEB/MAR2019. San Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA STREET ART & GRAFFITI: GRAFFITI DE PURA VIDA !

Published on March 5, 2019 by jacquelinemhadelLeave a comment

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3mar19. San Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA: A SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE

Published on March 4, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel2 Comments

Sunday morning scenes at a street market

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**My own mind is my own church**. ~ Thomas Paine

“A sense of humor is essentially a sense of perspective. It is an understanding that comes from a true sense of proportion. Humor is not a matter of laughing at things, but of understanding them. At its highest it is a part of understanding life. It is an ability to **see ourselves as we are**, and to smile at the comic figure that the biggest of us cuts in strutting across life’s stage.”
― Nivard Kinsella

In hotels we are invisible to our neighbors.

“Monsanto Kills.” ~ The worst company on Earth.

“Gatsby believed in the **green light**, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jungle in the city. Was lost, then I was found.

3mar19. San Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA 🇨🇷 STREET ART & GRAFFITI: ALIEN-NATION

Published on February 27, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel2 Comments

23feb19. San Jose, Costa Rica 🇨🇷

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA 🇨🇷: SECTOR PUBLICO

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24feb19. San Jose, Costa Rica 🇨🇷

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA 🇨🇷: SPIRIT

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EST. 1908. Old Atlantic Rail Station 🚉. Avenida 3 & Calle 21.

National Museum of Costa Rica 🇨🇷

24feb19. San Jose, Costa Rica 🇨🇷

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA 🇨🇷: BE STILL

Published on February 24, 2019 by jacquelinemhadelLeave a comment

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. – Herman Hesse

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