My Costa Rica Story One question that I frequently get asked is….so, Scott, how did you end up in Costa Rica? What’s your story? I usually respond by asking them how much time they have. Since I don’t believe I have addressed that question, recently, here’s a Tall Tales of Costa Rica Guy episode that […]
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A while back I opened a store in San Jose selling Costa Rican Indigenous arts and crafts. The name of the store was Costa Rican Artisans. Well, I don’t have the physical store any more, but I still sell the stuff via an online store. In the process of opening the store I visited all […]
Here’s a little home-made video I did a while back of my Corcovado Costa Rica experience. In it we pay a visit to Drake Bay and Sirena Station in the heart of Corcovado National Park, one of the best places to see Costa Rica wildlife up close and personal. We spent the weekend at Drake […]
With Friends Like This… Once upon a time I would travel to Arenal (as in the volcano) quite often…both for business and pleasure. I especially remember one semi-pleasurable incident that took place on one of my frequent Arenal expeditions… and which makes for another of my tall tales of Costa Rica Guy… This time I […]
Costa Rica is indeed the land of many rivers. Where I live is no exception. With the highest mountain (Cerro Chirripo at 12,533 feet) less than an hours drive away and the beach only about half that time, you can imagine that there are many Costa Rica rivers running through it. And sometimes quite ferociously […]
Running on Empty My earlier years in Costa Rica were spent running… mainly running uptown for a drink. My life had taken some dramatic twists and I often reacted poorly by seeking solace in the wrong places. I can distinctly remember one of those nights. This was back when Costa Rica was still a basically […]
One Hail of a Meeting I came to Costa Rica quite a few years back… about 13 to be exact. You see, I used to be a broker of medium-sized family-held businesses. You know the kind that make little plastic widgets and sell them by the truckload to GM or GE. I like to refer […]
If There’s a Will, There’s a Buey We were sitting around the living room of the humble home of my friends in Guatuso. Guatuso is in the northern central zone about an hour and a half from the Arenal Volcano, in the direction of the Nicaraguan border. In fact, it is only about another hour […]
If the Price is Right Years ago, back when I was still a greenhorn Costa Rica Guy, I had some buddies from the States fly in for a weekend of fun. Weekends of fun back then usually meant Jaco Beach. So, that’s where we headed. Little did we know that a not all too uncommon […]
I am often asked by our Package Costa Rica customers, “does the site of the Arenal Volcano still ‘get you’ even after you have seen it over and over so many times?” The answer to that question is easy, absolutely yes! For sure, I have seen Arenal more times than I can even attempt to remember. Yet the volcano […]
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