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| Nirvana Apartments Alajuela, Costa Rica |
Everyone was happy to be out of their cages—even the humans—and the cats
began to hiss at each other which continues to this day. Our black cat is Will—a
converted feral cat who had lived on our front porch for several years. Essie
is our indoor cat who has always been interested in but not welcoming of Will.
We expected some issues with those two. Daphne is our aging black lab and is
fine with both cats but is easily intimidated. Daphne tries to be the peacemaker—which
is NOT a reference to the Colt Revolver.
Our rental car was delivered by Wild Rides—a car rental
company we have used several times— we loaded up in the narrow alleyway outside
the Nirvana and hit the road by 11:30 am. Our luggage containing our remaining
earthly possessions was stuffed in the back and on the top of our Nissan
Tracker, held in place by straps and bungees. I said a silent prayer that the
roof-rack would stay in place. I had this mental picture of our stuff careening
down some mountainside securely bound to the roof-rack which was not so
securely bound to the luggage rack of the Nissan.
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| View from our new home in Puriscal |
We had been to Puriscal twice before and thought we knew the
way—following the usually dependable “Waze” navigation app on our cell phones.
But in the mountains of Puriscal “Waze” can be misleading and unless you
download the maps for your area to your phone when the signal drops so do your
navigational directions. After some missed turns on a remarkably long
thirty-mile trip, we arrived at last at our new home—Altos de Antigua, La Palma
Puriscal, San Jose, Costa Rica!
Every visitor should be greeted by a welcoming party, and we
were. First was Brian, an original resident and developer of Antigua. Brian represented
the owner of our casa and the development of Alto de Antigua. The second was “Jungle
Cat”, a brown stripped tabby who was to become a de facto new member of
our animal kingdom. Jungle Cat had been living on our patio and was happy to
see us—he was VERY hungry—Welcome to Costa Rica, your new home—now feed me!
