By Dan Lee, former journalist and author of Indian Shadow I was sitting in a tree house, which was cozied up to the jungle, when Adelia came in.
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You can be too.
Or was it popcorn? Anyway, she\'s adventurous.
Adelia says they taste like peanuts.
I\'ll let you make up your own mind about eating termites.
There are jaguars that follow the banks of a river, flocks of rainbow-colored parrots, bands of monkeys, snakes, caymans, and termites.
Behind the vignettes, the brightly colored houses, the friendly natives, and the ecological consciousness, there is the reality of the jungle.
The jungle will lower your blood pressure, and expat society is far better than looking at the UPS man on a bell cam.
Of course, you might be just sixty or even fifty, with a taste for adventure.
These vignettes give a flavor of what it\'s like to leave the US in your seventh decade, with what you can take on the airplane, and ship the rest in a container.
She was going to make the jump from Washington state for personal reasons.
Adelia was in Costa Rica, scouting out a place to live, but had been visiting over several years.
We go there to visit our son who owns the place.
Los Gatos Locos restaurant and bar is in Ojochal, Costa Rica, and is a tree house in the jungle.
I felt empathy right away.
She looked into my eyes and said, I need a margarita.
I\'d known her for years, but we\'d never met in person.
By Dan Lee, former journalist and author of Indian Shadow I was sitting in a tree house, which was cozied up to the jungle, when Adelia came in
