Our one month is up today. It feels as we have been here for much longer. We fell in love with the beautiful view in El Cajon, the people living here and even the afternoon rain. Everyone made us feel so welcome here, both expats and the locals. Kids made good friends as well as us. We could see ourselves coming back here but now its time to see more of this beautiful country.

We have favorite local stores called "supers" (neighborhood grocery), restaurants, favorite market vendors that always give us new fruit to try. We have a great car mechanic "a doctor" for our "dragonfly". He jokes that he likes when people work on their cars themselves it brings him more work. Everyone knows our car here so the entire village waves when we drive by. 

But we wanted to experience living closer to the beach and see as much of Costa Rica as we can during our stay. We are very interested in permaculture and for that reason we chose Ecovilla a sustainable living community as our next stop. We are excited about a school for kids, abundance of organic produce, the salt water pool, river with waterfalls, meeting new people and hopefully have a reliable internet. The kids have become even better friends, as if that was even possible. We are surprised how well they have adjusted to their new surroundings.