Fresh new air to breathe. One of the many benefits of living in my new home, Perez Zeledon. To be more specific, La Palma, about five minutes outside of town in the mountains between San Isidro General and Playa Dominical. But lately there is something new in the air. Something transforming. I know what it […]
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My nephew-in-law, Sebas, visited me during Semana Santa and we had a week filled with surfing, horse-back riding and adventure. One afternoon, after hiking around in Chirripo National Park that morning, we set out in La Poderosa to discover the best way to see the Diamante waterfall, supposedly the highest in Costa Rica at 600 feet. […]
Living in the southern zone of Costa Rica opens up a world of adventure for a nature-lover like myself. While Costa Rica abounds in stunning biodiversity and natural beauty in almost every part, the southern zone stands out as being one of the most untamed and untarnished. This week I had the pleasure of visiting […]
I recently moved, again. In the last four years I have moved four times. That mathematically equates to one move per year. I can’t keep this up….at my age, are you kidding? It seems that maybe it is time to settle down somewhere. The place I have chosen is Paris, but not in the sense […]
I haven’t been writing in the blog lately. December just didn’t afford me the time (or the ability to concentrate long enough to bang out 400 – 500 of coherent words). And for the last of December and first of January I was bringing in the new year in Medellin, Colombia. For most of the […]
It has to be green. I also like red and blue. But if I have to pick a favorite, that would certainly be green. Why green? Well for one thing, it is the color of Costa Rica. I have never encountered a place so verdantly and vibrantly green. It is mesmerizing. You can stare at […]
Things have changed considerably since Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill was first published. That was in 1937. The U.S. was in depression and on the eve of World War II. The decades of the 30’s and 40’s were indeed a time when a positive mental attitude was about all one could maintain. Everything else that […]
Just across from the stop light of Paseo Colón, and bordering the neighborhoods of Sabana, Pavas, and Rohrmoser is La Sabana Park. It is kinda like the “Central Park” of San José, a large rectangular area measuring 720,000 square meters (.72 square kilometers). It was officially declared a metropolitan park in 1977 during the Daniel […]
There’s just something about a mountain. I grew up a flat-lander, on the coasts of North and South Carolina. However, I have always been drawn mysteriously, like some cosmic magnetic pull, to the mountains. Maybe that is the chief reason I love Costa Rica so much. I have often wondered what exactly is it that keeps me […]
Standing up for what’s right, at all costs, is the hallmark of true courage and conviction. Kimberly Blackwell had such courage…such conviction. Blackwell was found brutally murdered on the patio of her remote home on the Osa peninsula, bordering Corcovado National Park. She had acquired a tract of land and planted cocoa trees and started […]
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