I now live in a concrete dome. In describing it, there doesn't seem to be a word here (in Spanish) that really describes this. The closest we get is is el horno meaning the oven. That is because there are outdoor ovens, made of adobe, that people use to cook rosquillas (a "cookie" for which there is no word in English).

My solution is to just say that I live in la casa redonda, the round house.It makes sense as the base is round and even the top is round.

Well, I have been cleaning up all too many years of papers to try to turn my small office into a place where I can find things. I found some old paperwork related to opening a bank account in Costa Rica almost 10 years ago. I didn't live there yet but decided a bank account first was a good idea. To open one I needed a Costa Rica address. I was staying with a friend so using his address made sense.

Much like Nicaragua, addresses in Costa Rica aren't numbers and streets. They tend to be relative to landmarks. His house was actually the landmark used in the area. Why? Because it was round. Everyone in the residential part of Cariari knew things relative to la casa redonda. It wasn't a dome but it was round. Pretty much a cylinder.

When things like this happen I wonder if the first event was practice for what was going to happen later in my life.