Santa Catalina is a fishing village circled by real estate sharks. There is already blood in the water and so it is only a matter of time before the feeding frenzy begins in earnest.
But right now you can still meet a surfer from Devon there who attended the same boarding school as Winston Churchill yet [...]
Small village life.
Two hours on the bus to the nearest grocery store. No internet to speak of, no phone, no post.
On the other hand, there is the sunset over the Pacific ocean. Whales, dolphins, turtles. Surf. Clams on the beach. Fried fish. Rainy season thunder storms. Endless star gazing.
Life in San Jose looks pretty slow and torpid but there are certain tensions under the surface which gradually become more clear to me.
I make a visit to the San Jose Health Centre for my final rabies shot. Despite two trips to the Centre the previous week to ensure that the vaccine was available there, [...]