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After visiting Sarapiqui, Arenal, and Rio Celeste, we parted ways with D’s parents. They took the kids back to San Jose while we traveled on toward

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14th Avenue HO Scale by Lance Mindheim The image above is a photograph from an iPhone of an HO switching layout by Lance Mindheim . It’s an image

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Since we are on the topic of playing cards, there is also something for super fans of The Lord of the Rings too. Tennessee-based luxury playing cards

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Have you ever wondered what Stormtroopers do when they go on a break from walking aimlessly around the Moon-size Death Star? My bet is that they

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Many people across the world love to play the guitar, whether it’s acoustic, electric, or classical. There’s no question that becoming a better

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Most people have desires but I am pretty sure most of us do not have the desire to become something else other than a human. Oh, wait. I just

3 min read 2022-05-12 10:40:44

At one point during our travels last month, S forbade D to leave our hotel room without his birding camera. That happened when we went on what we

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We spent two days in Rio Celeste, our wet but beautiful hike in Tenorio Volcano National Park sandwiched in between two sunny, gorgeous afternoons at

4 min read 2022-05-04 23:40:24

The Arenal volcano may have cooled down over the last decade, but there’s another sense in which it remains Costa Rica’s hottest hotspot. EBird,

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After over a decade as an enlisted infantry Marine, my husband jumped ship and crossed over to the dark side as an officer. When he made the switch,

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With red hot lava oozing down its slopes, Arenal — Costa Rica’s youngest volcano — was quite the sight to behold when we first arrived in this

5 min read 2022-04-29 00:30:30

For months, D has been feeling incomplete. At the end of January, just as we were wrapping up a trip to Costa Rica’s Pacific coast with S’s

3 min read 2022-04-27 22:26:19

If you are a fan of Transformers who has a special affinity for Netflix’s Transformers War For Cybertron Trilogy, well, then you are in for a

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The first time we visited Romania — a driving tour from Chisinau to see the incredible painted monasteries of Bucovina — Munchkin was barely a

3 min read 2022-04-17 07:00:27

If you’re rocking AMD components in your desktop PC, take a moment to make sure your CPU isn’t unintentionally overclocking itself. A bug in a