Lake Neuron

Well, today I picked up some Spanish-language Bibles, thanks to a gracious in-kind donation by a local Christian printer-publisher. We’ll give them to our host church or others we meet in Costa Rica. I have so many that I may have to split them up with my teammates in order to get all of them packed.

I also checked with my bank today to make sure I can use my ATM card in Costa Rica. I normally don’t have much cause to use an ATM card on trips — we bring cash and change it in for the local currency at someplace recommended by our in-country hosts. But last year, during our odyssey of going to and from the airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for 32 hours, I tried to use my card at the airport and it didn’t work. That’s because many credit card issuers assume that foreign charges are some form of fraud or identity theft — unless you notify them in advance that you will be traveling and using your card abroad.

It won’t be long now. I have a million little things like this to worry about between now and then, and I hope I can get them all taken care of.