In short, after 12 years of retirement in Nashville I realized I couldn’t afford to travel for nature photography and live in retirement there, thus deciding to just go live in my favorite place to travel, Costa Rica! I didn’t say it then, but I also wanted to get away from right-wing Republicans who are partly responsible for America being mostly for rich white supremist men and crazy right-wingers. Plus Southern Baptists and all the other “Evangelicals” no longer represent my faith and following of Jesus and their politics makes it an embarrassment to have spent my whole adult life working for them. Costa Rica is a relief from all of that and more! I love it here! And I’m thinking about becoming a Quaker, receiving their weekly newsletters and videos, though hampered by no Friends Meeting site near where I live.
This website was started in 2000 while serving missionaries in The Gambia, West Africa for 3 years with reports from that experience still here. See: Gambia Missionary page + links found there.
The blog is all about me being “Retired in Costa Rica” that I started in June 2014 before moving here in December 2014. I have a new page here on Why I Blog that explains how I got to this point in blogging and my sometimes changing reasons for blogging. 🙂
I have decided that Costa Rica is the perfect place for me! I can’t imagine living anywhere else now with my love of the outdoors expressed in my Hiking & Camping history or now the Costa Rica Trips Links on Menu below. Enjoy my stories and photos! And then go live your own dream! You only live once! 🙂
Explore, Dream, Discover
-Mark Twain
ABOUT MENU
- ABOUT ME PERSONALLY (sub-pages here)
- Why I Blog
- Biographies
- Jobs (Career & other work history)
- Scrapbooks (from childhood until retirement)
- Journals (overlap much on this menu)
- Life Stories (overlaps much on this menu)
- Schools (Elementary through Graduate School)
- Boy Scouts
- Hiking & Camping – A lifetime avocation! 🙂
- Doing Good – Volunteering or another avocation!
- Art Lover
- Photographer
- Birder
- My TN Bicentennial Mall Brick * (in photo gallery)
- My Brick at Nashville Zoo * (in photo gallery)
- Name on Plaque at Hardgrave Cemetery, Johnson Co., AR (in photo gallery) *
- Ship Named Charles Doggett (not named after me but fun story with my name and a relationship to Nashville and a friend there)
- ABOUT TRAVEL (Worldwide – stories, articles) *
- ABOUT HIS SPIRIT (Being a follower of Jesus) *
- ABOUT FAMILY (Family History & What Went Wrong in My Marriage) *
* Star/asterisk means this page is found under another main menu tab above & linked here because it relates to this page, just not physically under this tab or a sub-page here. Travel, Family and His Spirit are on the main menu at top which and when I decided to move them here totally, I could not because they were linked to those addresses in too many location. 🙂
“Stories are a communal currency of humanity.”
–Tahir Shah, in Arabian Nights
This website contains the stories and photos of my humanity.
¡Pura Vida!