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I came from a large family and we had a milk cow. No of us ever had any problems with raw milk. We had plenty and gave it away. Eventually it got citified around us and some started to say we shouldn’t give that milk away because it could make you sick. My father read the hand writing on the wall and we quit giving it away. Sure was hard pouring milk into the ditch to get rid of it; felt like such a waste.
David gives you some spot on advice. Before you even get to that stage, just go to Costa Rica and move around the country.See if you even like the place.
You can get married and get residency (a great way for some) and there are beautiful women in CR as well …
Please no lectures to him about sham marriages! At is age it’s most likely that he is not married and will marry within a few years.
Rent a vehicle (expensive) or maybe best of all for a young guy go on the buses. You can pretty well travel and stay as expensive or cheap as you want.
Some youth hostels charge only $4.00 per night and that would be a closet large enough to lay down in with your stuff.
The people around this forum most likely would be appalled at.
Good luck and you will have a time of your life in Costa Rica.
[quote=”DavidCMurray”]I’ve never heard of American companies offering mortgages in Costa Rica, but, of course, I could easily be wrong.
What I have heard of is Americans using the equity in their U.S. properties to purchase real estate in Costa Rica. There are also Costa Rican mortgage brokers who can assist with obtaining a mortgage here.
Stewart Title Company has a mortgage services office. When we used them for our construction financing, they took all the documentation we’d normally provide to a U.S. mortgage lender and sent it to the Southern Bank of Texas who evaluated it as if they were considering extending us a mortgage. They then made a recommendation (to lend, thankfully) which Stewart used to obtain our financing from a Costa Rican bank. Other mortgage brokers could do the same.
[/quote]Thanks David. I think you are right. Stewart Title is who i was thinking of. I replied back to you awhile back and i think i didn’t hit the save button.
[quote=”wspeed1195″]There’s a whole segment of society that you don’t have to put spurs on someone’s hands and have them fight. Long before UFC there was club fighting and backyard fighting.
YouTube Kimbo Slice, some of us grew up this way.
My father was A power lineman back in the 50’s when they ran power across the continent. When work got slow he lumberjacked. Many was the time, my momma told the stories, they would be down on their luck and he would fight at the line yards and lumber mills and camps.
When they settled in Miami he continued to scrap. At the airboat camps, at the Hialeah stock car track, the old drag strip at the abandon air force runway off of 27 ave.
I was brought up to do the same thing.
Theonly difference being in the 70’s and 80’s they would lock us up for underground fighting.
Now they make millions of dollars as UFC fighters.
[/quote]My dad worked in CCC Camps during the depression. They were in Arkansas and for Saturday night fun they had Bare knuckle Fist fights. The sheriff was the referee and my dad told me he wasn’t very good and he had a chipped front tooth to prove it.
[quote=”DavidCMurray”]That’s good to know, Sr. Versatile. Next time you come to Costa Rica, could you bring CRBill two or three?
[/quote]Just as soon as i get a new blade for my hacksaw. lol
[quote=”costaricabill”][quote=”DavidCMurray”]I can’t speak to the flat-foot versions, but in the past I’ve seen metal bed frames at PriceSmart in Escazu. My recollection is that they’re adjustable and will accommodate full- and queen-size mattresses and box spirngs or foundations.
Good luck in your search.
[/quote]Thanks David, I’m off to SJO manana manana with only your help to assist me. Over 25,000 members and only one member offers any help at all. Even a response from Spite would have been appreciated, something like “Don’t go looking to buy adjustable metal bed frames in any Gated Communities!”
If PriceMart doesn’t have them, I guess we’ll get coconuts to put under each corner of the bed to hold it up.
I’ll send a report to let you know if I find them, but only David will receive it, the other 25,000+ are on your own!
Cheers,
[/quote]Well golly gee. I guess i am part of those 25,000 that didn’t respond. I am in Kansas City and the only thing i can recommend is around here. You could go to Nebraska Furniture Mart or Sam’s Club around here. lol
[quote=”Barbed1″]A cylinder compression test followed by a cylinder leak down test. Chances are if it was overheated,even just once, you blew a head gasket. It might not have blown at the time it over heated but enough stress was put on the gasket that it eventually will blow. Over heating can also cause a warped and cracked head and block. The block can be visually checked but the head needs to be pressure tested. Also just shaving the head will not tell you if it has an internal crack all that does is insure a flat surface for the gasket to seat to. There is no way a bad radiator can leak water into the oil. Any good mechanic will tell you the same thing. Good Luck.[/quote]
I never said a leaky radiator would get water in the oil.I said it might be the radiator.(scenario)Were the radiator to had a pinhole leak that is very hard to detect and possibly was not. Then the radiator could be at fault. Mechanic reassembles the engine and fills up the radiator. Mechanic doesn’t know about the leak . He just filled it up properly and checked for any leaks while it idled. Most likely the leak wouldn’t start until the vehicle was being used under a load. Thus within 100 miles the radiator fluid was gone causing once gain the head gasket to blow. That is how it could be the radiator.
I have also found out that even though there is no leak in the radiator those old radiators just seem to quit cooling as well, because the fins for some reason do not give off the heast as well as when new.Thanks Marvilla. I guess i didn’t explain myself.
The system always gives four choices. How do i know which choice to make?Most likely you need to try it out.
I ha a though this morning. You need to check out your radiator. Is it the original one? You could have a very small pressure leak that is draining the radiator. The leak can be so small you will never notice it unless you have a very sharp eye at the right time.
[quote=”Dukester”]How to tell if a motor needs a head gasket or the block is cracked?The radiator went dry so it broke down and I had a mechanic have the head shaved and re-worked and within 100 miles the exhaust is blowing out water again- what did the mechanic do wrong? how to tell if the block is cracked? Thank you-[/quote]
Since it went about 100 miles before the water returned i would think the mechanic didn’t get the head gasket properly installed. Didn’t bolt the head down properly,used the wrong gasket, didn’t prepare the block properly for the head installation..Or the head needed to be retorqued after a few miles and wasn’t. Or the the head was shaved so much that the compression was increased to much and caused the gasket to fail.
Does the oil look a milky brown? Are you sure it wasn’t low on fluid when you got it back and caused failure that way? Give us the vehicle name and spec’s etc.I would also go to a car forum for that particular vehicle and get info there from a gear head that knows you car inside and out. Might be something particular to this car and not the mechanics fault. I know from years ago that a 1974 Jeep Cherokee with the v8 engine will throw/break the #7 connecting rod right at 105,000 miles
[quote=”wspeed1195″][quote=”Barbed1″]A public health problem,drug addiction,can not be fixed by the war on drugs. Unfortunately people who have never had a drug problem WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND ADDICTION. I am 10+ years clean and sober and have never met a non addict who understands addiction. Their answer is always ,Just quit! As long as you fit your narrow preception of who and what drug abusers are you will never really understand the real problem. I never was or met a prostitute so I really don’t have an opinion on that issue.
Just saying[/quote]Legalization and addiction don’t belong in the same conversation. I’ve also found my way out through an on-going recovery process for 23 years now.
When I was in the grip of my disease you could have legalized all drugs and I would still do exactly what I was doing.
Legalization is for people who have normal lives that indulge themselves from time to time and drugs don’t have the addictive nature that it had on me. I was an addict very shortly after my first use at 9. It was alcohol, it became pot by 11 and so on. By 19 I had sold kilos. That was in 1979 when the price of the product was $60,000 A kilo. Just like the disease, the lifestyle is progressive. It grows, it gets bigger,more lucrative, more dangerous and eventually it is the proud owner of another life.
I was as addicted to the violence in miami as I was the dope. Addiction manifested itself into all areas of my life.[/quote] By 19 I had sold kilos. That was in 1979 when the price of the product was $60,000 A kilo.What were you smoking? That is a hell of a price.
[quote=”sprite”]I am an avid sea kayaker. I am also a good swimmer. Nonetheless, when I began kayaking, I was apprehensive and very respectful of the ocean environment. Consequently, I have not yet had a bad experience. I am amazed at how many people stupidly and cavalierly venture into dangerous environments about which they know nothing. Taking a swim in unknown waters is no different than walking in a city park at night in a bad neighborhood. Situation awareness is a survival skill that is obviously absent in some people.[/quote]
Had friends that went camping in Florida. Told me they found a really cool trail system and camped there but they never saw anyone else. Later they found out the trails are made by Gators.
You are quite correct Sprite.[quote=”Scott”]The article says that “… an official at the Costa Rican plant missed a scheduled interview without explanation and did not respond to a subsequent attempt to contact him.”
Ha!
Sounds like Costa Rica alright …
But Versatile – why on earth would you say that “Right/wrong/cruel doesn’t matter to me.”
Scott[/quote]
The total purpose of my thread is to find out where the cattle come from, due to the concept that Beef from CR is so tough,why would the Jewish want it over different beef and that makes me wonder why.
Sure don’t want the thread to take another trail as they so often do. When i post something or read posts i try to stick with Costa Rica subjects at this forum. Yes i degress as well.
Thanks[quote=”DavidCMurray”]Well, if you’ve been to any three ocean beaches, the odds are good that you’ve been in the vicinity of a rip current. Something that folks don’t appreciate is that these things change over time. What was calm water yesterday can be dangerous today and calm again tomorrow.
I didn’t even know you could see a rip current. I just googled a looked at photos.Pretty much the same advice for the Missouri River is you fall off a boat. Don’t even try to swim to shore; just start swimming a fast as you can down stream and maybe angle just a bit towards the bank. Eventually due to the bends in the river you will come to the bank of the river; unless you get in a whirlpool and then it is all over for you.
