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Hoover Sabbatical to CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Rica ~ January through June 2001!  Bienvenidos!!


One previous / our first  sabbatical was to the Washington, DC area January-June 1989.  We lived in Silver Spring, MD.
  Bill worked one previous time in the DC area - the summer of 1979.  We lived in Chevy Chase, MD.
  The summer of 1978, we were in Madison, WI for work-related activities.
  Bill and his family get around some don't they!?!



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Bill, Peggy, & Samuel with Humberto Esquivel & family (including father-in-law) in San Jose just after we arrived in Costa Rica!  Humberto, Virginia, Little Humberto, & Marcela lived in our West Lafayette house keeping Jennifer company while the Hoover's were in Costa Rica.

Humberto studied at Purdue University - Forestry Dept. while Virginia kept busy with the children plus a new town & new friends.

Thanks for taking care of everything -- glad you enjoyed your stay in Indiana!!

ˇBienvenidos!  <~>  Costa Rica – A Photo Gallery of Links, etc:

Additional pictures of Costa Rica culture and wildlife that the Hoover's have sighted while on sabbatical....
Return to previous pictures Costa Rica sabbatical pictures...  CR Map


...snowy/cattle egrets, green parrots, tanagers, black vultures, 'mucho' birds!  
PLUS...opossums, armadillos, snakes and lizards, toads and frogs....
...volcanoes, a national monument, rain forests, cloud forests, a Caribbean beach or two, (did not make it to the Pacific!)...San Jose, towns/villages of all sizes, farmers' markets...Panama City, Panama....


Great Kiskadee


Northern Jacana


Purple Gallinule

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Coatimundis



Sabbatical Page 1 - CR Map >
January - June 2001
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Blue Morpho Butterfly


Montezuma's Oropendola


Boat-billed Herons


Crimson-fronted Parakeet

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Coffee Fields
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