Los Sauces Barrio

Above: Here is a view of our neighborhood as seen on Google Earth.

One of the interesting things about Costa Rica is that none of the secondary streets have any names, and the majority of the houses are not numbered, and therefore no one has a mailing address and directions are given only by landmarks.

This is not much of a problem when you walk everywhere you go, but it begins to be tough when you want to walk to the same place a week later. So now whenever we go anywhere new, as soon as we get home we look it up on the Google Earth map and add a placemark.

Some things of note on our map, you’ll see our house in blue and our friends’ houses in yellow. One block east of us is the park where Lucy loves to play, and the beginning of our route to school, the Spanish Institute. Mega Super is our grocery store, Pequeno Mundo is like big lots, and the corners stores are great for a quick trip for a Coke Lite.

If you want to look up our neighborhood (Los Sauces Barrio), on Google Earth, our coordinates are 9°54′33.06″N, 84° 3′56.63″W.