Wow the tourism business is tough these days! People don’t want to spend a dime and when they do, man do they do it with attitude. That’s understandable, because in these tough economic times every dime counts. But I am writing this to inform would be travelers to Costa Rica a few things that I […]
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Costa Rica is unique in many ways. One of the most dramatic and often puzzling attributes that sets Costa Rica apart is its lack of a military. Many ask how can Costa Rica be safe when there has been so much strife to its north and south without a military to protect itself? To understand […]
Had to play tour guide this weekend for a family of four, with two small children. The eight year old boy seemed to be determined to identify as many species as possible. He had his trusted field guide handy and any time he saw an animal he would go digging through it until he came […]
Located in the mountains of Aserri, south of San Jose, is one of my favorite places, the restaurant known as Mirador Ram Luna. I can still remember the very first time I had the experience of eating there. I say experience, because the Mirador Ram Luna is indeed an “experience.” Just getting there is half […]
I love this whole concept of blogging. This way I can voice my complaints to the entire world wide web, or at least that portion of it that would actually read my rants. So here goes another one. One thing that gets under my skin worse than anything under the sun is a judgmental attitude […]
It seems every other day I read in La Nación about another of Costa Rica’s species “disappearing.” Most recently, the Lapas of Sarapiquí, but before that, salamanders, and then last year, the Sapo Holdridge (a rain forest frog, which is now considered extinct). I give credit to La Nación for at least writing about these […]
People often ask me, “which is your favorite beach in Costa Rica?” That is a very difficult question because there are so many. There are approximately 1,290 kilometers of coastline on the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of this country. And both sides are dotted with beautiful beaches. I have written in the past about many […]
Maybe it is just me, but it seems that there is something different about the world these days. People seem to be a bit more “edgy” and fearful now than any time since I was born 48 years ago. I mean I didn’t live through the two great world wars or the Great Depression, the […]
Just moved my office. It seems that whenever you move you generate an inordinate amount of garbage. You know all that “valuable” stuff that accumulates over time that now you don’t consider to be that valuable. So in the name of reducing clutter you just chunk it. Problem is that here in Costa Rica “chunking […]
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