Picture yourself on a white sand beach in the glaring tropical sun with the waves crashing on a crystal clear sea while you recline on your beach chair sipping a tropical rum punch. Sound nice? Well it is a perfect setting to enjoy in a place like Cancun or Cozumel, where the resorts are large, […]
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What’s so great about a vacation? Most people live their lives in order to take one. It becomes really, after the kids and that ultimate vacation called retirement, the most important day-to-day motivating factor in their lives (well sex has to be up there on the list, but the vacation is usually viewed as an […]
I saw An Inconvenient Truth last night and again this morning for the first time. I guess that admission shows that I am a little late to arrive to the sustainability party. But, what the hell, I’m here. Better late than never, as they say. All the facts, graphs and photos were indeed impressive and […]
A dash for the Shelter I read an article in last Sunday’s edition of Proa (a special section that appears each Sunday in La Nación, Costa Rica’s most reputable and reliable newspaper) about an old hotel located in one of Costa Rica’s most dangerous downtown locations, what we call Zona Roja, that has been converted […]
Group of Ticos Living in Arizona I read an article in the Sunday issue of La Nación about the way ticos living in Arizona, as well as other U.S. states, are perceiving the new immigration law. The perception is that this law has unleashed a backlash of anger and hatred towards Latin American people in […]
Visited the ACTUAR office today. Actuar is a Spanish verb meaning “to act.” But in this case, it is also the name of the Costa Rican Association of Rural Community Tourism. What is “rural community tourism.” Well, according to their guidebook, it is tourism that provides a chance to really immerse oneself in local culture and […]
I have had the notion from time to time of offering a traditional Costa Rica vacation package with a twist. And that twist would be allocating some portion of time to volunteering. The volunteer part would not just be about sloshing out ladles of soup in some downtown San Jose soup kitchen. No, it would […]
As a kid we all hated when that bratty brother or sister, cousin or more distant relative or friend, told on us. Made you want to do bodily harm to the you know what, now didn’t it? Right now I have one of those here in Costa Rica. His name is Nik Clayton and he […]
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