Before arriving to Costa Rica I had never really thought about those little creatures that are so small they seem more like insects than birds. I mean they also exist in the U.S., but I never really noticed them that much. Here it is a different story. They are so plentiful in Costa Rica that […]
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For my first years in Costa Rica I was always a city dweller. Actually, for the first couple years I lived in hotels until I finally rented an apartment in Paseo Colón, a business district of San Jose. I had my travel agency office downstairs and my apartment upstairs, so basically I never really left […]
I have said often that no matter where you are in Costa Rica you are going to find three things in close proximity: a bus stop, a bar (with an Imperial sign hanging) and a soccer field. In Costa Rica fútbol, or soccer as it is called in the U.S., is religion. Every kid grows […]
It probably comes as no big surprise to readers of this blog (hopefully there is someone out there reading it??) that I own a travel business. You know the one I shamelessly plug from time to time (Package Costa Rica). Just like any business there are aspects of it that don’t exactly get me too […]
Costa Rica has a reputation for the exotic and mysterious. I guess because it is so, well, exotic and mysterious. But there is no place that exemplifies these characteristics more than the Peninsula de Osa. There are remote corners of Costa Rica where man never hath trodden and deep in the heart of Osa may […]
People sometimes carry the wrong idea in their heads about Costa Rica. Costa Rica is not Cancun, or Cozumel or Saint Martin. Sure we have our large, swanky and all-inclusive resorts….most of them tucked away up in the North Pacific (Guanacaste). But here is a little secret that will help you get the most out […]
Well now we finally get to the really good stuff. Truth is, you can take the boy out of Carolina, but you just ain’t gonna take Carolina out of the boy. Back home we used to have big barbecue parties we like to call “pig pickins.” So I grew up with the aroma of swine […]
When folks think of Costa Rica what generally comes to mind are its beaches, jungles and volcanoes. I have written about certain of Costa Rica volcanoes, Arenal, Poas, Turrialba, etc. This post is dedicated to all of them, because together they make Costa Rica a really cool place (as long as they are nice, that […]
I am thinking business the morning. Specifically real estate business. Yea I know that in the U.S. that is a bad word these days. But isn’t it true that the best opportunities begin to arise when the market is beaten down? Anyway, the reason I am thinking business is because I am developing a real […]
There should be no surprise to readers of this blog that in my opinion Costa Rica is a very unique country. I may have cited the following statistic in a previous post, but it is so amazing that I reiterate here. Costa Rica is a tiny country, with about 0.1% of the land mass of the earth. Yet […]
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