Our Home with No Address

We can’t tell you the address of our home, because it doesn’t seem to have one. It’s in the Bajo del Tigre neighborhood, which is known mainly as the entrance to the trails of the Bosque Eterno de los Ninos — a 22,000 hectare reserve that was purchased using the donations of children from all over the world. If you continue past the reserve’s path until you reach four little driveways, take the driveway on the right, then the little one on the left and keep going and you’ll find us back in the woods.

Here are some pictures of our house, which we moved into last weekend after spending two lovely weeks with our relatives. On the right, the main house, and on the left the casita, which awaits visitors.

The front entrance, staircase to the bedrooms, and some tasteful, strangler-fig-themed, faux stained glass.

Where you’ll find Alia when she’s not in school or on a hike.

Some things I would say about our home:

• windows: our bedroom alone has 16 or 17 of them. The living room has 19. Why not?

• wood: dark wood floors, and walls, and polished tables, like pieces of the forest
  

• trees: they surround the house, and in the storms they bend and sway like they hardly mind the dramatic weather
  

• coatimundis: they walk along the tree branches outside the windows
  

• moths: after dark, they’re all over every window, hanging around our lights. The biggest one is about 6" across its wings. Oh, and right now there’s a leaf-shaped katydid accompanying them out there.
  

• butterflies: during the daytime, they’re fluttering around in the garden. We seem to see different kinds every day — today a big bright yellow one, and the pretty glass-wings that like the purple flowers, and of course the spectacular blue morphos.
  

• neighbors: A girl from Alia’s class, who is Israeli and trilingual, lives down the next driveway. Our relatives, Sue and Richard, live a 5-minute walk through the forest, past a 10-ft-wide leaf-cutter-anthill. Some tico neighbors have a slide in the front yard, so we’ll soon be introducing ourselves.
  ![Trostles house]If you can find your way to Bajo del Tigre this year, we’d love to see you here!