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In retrospect, I should have known she had a gringo sugar daddy. Nice house in a nice section of San Isidro de El General, all the electric appliances, numerous TV's, land line telephone, her two ninos very well dressed, braces. She wasn't getting all that "working" in squeeky Catholic San Isidro where everbody knows everybody, and 3.5 hs from SJ.
As an aside, that 35 km trip from San Isidro down the winding highway from the mountains to the Pacific is one ot the top panoramas I've ever experienced--anywhere.
The other thing is how many of them in San Isdro look alike. It's still 3.5 hrs from Sj via the worst and most dangerous--often very foggy with no rails on the curves--mntn highway in CR, the "Inter-Americana" (19 deaths in 2013) so it's no surprise over the 200 years before cars and "roads" that it was probably 5-7 days by mule. They were isolated from SJ, which locked in their gene pool. And eventually had a German population so you will see alot of blondes and/or blue/green eyed. I'm guessing the Germans around WWII when alot of the nazis were fleeing to S America, a well known fact, some wound up in CR? Many ticas there with German names, Ingrid, Heidi, Gretel, Hilga, etc.
App 30,000 people, one of the largest cities in CR, the largest in the "Southern Zone", but other then ex-pats living there (alot of them--great mountain climate, cheaper, 2 major hospitals, low crime rate, less then 1hr to the pacific), is rarely visited by gringo tourists--kind of an out of the way for places gringos want to see.
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