A Little Housekeeping

Posted by Wes on October 7th, 2008 @ 8:40 am under The Newest News, Website stuff

Well… our site is mostly fixed now. Still have some work to do to get back some missing posts, but everything is now working just fine.

If you are subscribed to our feed, then you probably haven’t received updates like you’re supposed to for the last few posts. That should be fixed now. If not, shoot me an email from the “Contact” page. If you’re not subscribed, why not? You should be. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, that’s ok… don’t sweat it. But, you can learn more here.

Did you know? We’ve got the option that you can subscribe by email and every time we put up a new post it’ll show up right in your inbox. This is great for a lot of you because it lets us do the legwork for you! It’s really easy to subscribe and unsubscribe whenever you want. Just put your email address in the form in the sidebar right over there on the right, click “go!” and follow the simple instructions.

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Let Us Show You Around

Posted by Wes on October 6th, 2008 @ 8:19 am under Costa Rica, Everything Derek, Everything Jakob, Life and Culture, Mission South America, Video

So we’ve been in Costa Rica for over a month now and it seems we’re finally settling in a little. We’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but for one reason or another we hadn’t been able to get it done until now. So, why don’t you come on in, and let me show you around… we’ve made a video tour of our home.


The Yoakum Casa in Costa Rica from theyoakums on Vimeo.

(If you’re reading this in a feed reader or by email you may need to click on over to our site to see the video.)

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A Rare Ocurrence

Posted by Wes on October 5th, 2008 @ 8:19 am under Costa Rica, Mission South America

We recently needed some up-to-date pics of our team and families… just thought I would share.

Our family of four. Derek turned 3 months old on Friday… and Jake is officially 2 1/2.

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It’s surprisingly difficult to get the whole team with all the kids and everybody even half-way ready to take a team picture. Somehow, the best time for this one was 7 in the morning. This is us in front of the administration building on the campus of ILE (the language school) before school.

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Back In The Game

Posted by Wes on October 3rd, 2008 @ 12:51 pm under Costa Rica, The Newest News, Website stuff

So, in the website world, we’ve been injured and riding the pine for a while now.  We’re certainly not back to 100% around here… we’re still missing a ton of posts and the layout and details are still a little out of wack… but, everything is functional again.  Woo hoo!  We can write about Costa Rica again!

Let’s see if we can’t get ya’ll mostly caught up to speed over the next few days.  First, let me tell you about an awesome Costa Rica experience I got to have recently.

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San Jose is nestled in what the Ticos call the Central Valley.  We’re surrounded by mountains on all sides.  When you look out our front door in the morning, there’s a lush green mountain.  When I turn the corner at the end of our street on the walk to school, there in front of us, lush green mountains.  Every time you turn around one is staring you in the face… and if you’re like me, those mountains are taunting you, daring you, calling out to you that you really NEED to get to the top of one.

So, one of the veteran students here at the school that has been here for a try “tri” (school goes in trimesters of 4 months each), and apparently is taunted by the mountains too, took a few of us on a little adventure.  We loaded up in a van, drove to another part of the city, up a steep windy hill as far as the van would go before it gave up… then walked a ways and found a trail that eventually led to the top.

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We had a great time.  The higher up the mountain the wetter it got.  By the time we reached the top it was a damp, lush, tropical forest with some incredible views of the city.

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Also, Mark, our big tour guide, is certified in repelling (or whatever it is that you need to have to help other people repel without killing themselves).  So, we stopped and had lunch on the side of the mountain and then spent a while relaxing and taking turns repelling down a cliff.

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We had a great time… all the guys got to go except for Mark… he overslept.   Where else can you leave at breakfast climb up a mountain through tropical forests, do some repelling and be back home by the afternoon?

See the rest of the pics here.

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