Recipes, Musings and Adventures of a Gringa Midwife in Costa Rica. Traditional Ox Carts at Sarchi. This gallery contains 8 photos. Painting the intricate patterns used on ox carts is a dying art. There is a studio in Sarchi where you can see painters at work and purchase painted souvenirs. Is the one I like best.

Learning from and laughing at my mistakes. So after getting our big news yesterday, it was time to figure out financing this house! I owe big updates. That was a lot faster than I thought it was going to be. So now we are onto the next steps. We have to get financing settled and get inspections done. Financing should be easy, but the house is 50 years old so the inspections could go really well, or not so well.

Of Mexicans live under the national poverty line. San Miguel is located in Guanajuato, one of the poorest states in Mexico. By providing a dignified and safe environment a casita linda or pretty little home we empower families and change lives.