Seahawk wrote:
My opinion that most of the San Jose so called monger maps that are on the internet, are over kill. Unless you know the places you want to go, they may be helpfull?
If thats the case than my map must be a NUCLEAR BOMB!!! What makes this map different from all the various earlier map versions is that, in addition to showing you where places are located, it tells you something about each of those places. And not just basic things like rates and hours but also mini-reviews and direct links to websites and detailed reviews right here at CRT. So my map will actually help you decide "the places you want to go".
Don't just take my word for it, though. I've put up a "map tour" to check out at my website that is available for anyone. I know I've been talking about this website for a while, but I've finally got most of the bugs worked out and have started to put up some of the content at
http://www.whorticulture.info. The map tour can be found in the menu under Costa Rica, but if you look around the menu you'll see there will be a LOT more there for VIP's (and non-VIP's with 30 or more posts).
The password to get full access is posted in the VIP section here (VIP's, please don't post or hand this out). The reason for this is because of the limited bandwidth that I purchased and some of the rich multimedia content that will be on the site. If you're not currently a VIP member, but are planning to join at least in part because of what you'll also be able to get at my site, I encourage you to join here by clicking on the CRT banner at my site. That is one way to provide me a small return to help defray some of my costs in putting it up for everyone (and hopefully enable me to expand my site).
If in doubt refer newbies to the main page which will give them info on how to register properly. It is my hope that everyone will respect my wishes on this so I won't have to keep changing the password, but if I do I'll post the new one here.
So what does this new site have (or will have) so far? Some of it has been around, but I'm just putting it all together at one address.
1) The latest SJ Map.
2) The CRT group calendar (which now shows the next 3 months on one page)
3) The 1st 100 pages from the Moon Handbook on Costa Rica.
4) The collected works of Prolijo put together as a Whorticulturist Guide to CR (yet to be compiled)
5) Salsa Music:
. . . . a) a primer on Latin Music (being developed) and
. . . . b) downloadable samples and full songs so you can put together your own Magic CD
. . . . (I had put something like this up long ago and will be bringing it back)
6) On-line video salsa dance lessons (now complete).
7) On-line spanish lessons (about halfway ready)
8 ) A primer on Costa Rican food and some recipes (yet to be developed)
9) Eventual coverage on other countries. So far I have posted a copy of Bwanadiks Rio Guide and am working on similar maps for Rio and Bangkok (badly need photos for the pop-ups)
I encourage everyone to please check my site out and let me know what you think. I'm putting this all together as a recreational exercise and a gift to all of you. I will never take any money for my time putting it together. But I would appreciate any contributions to cover my external costs, so I can purchase increased capacity and to encourage me to develop new content. Any excess funding beyond my actual expenses will go to a Costa Rican charity group.