One thing you get used after living in Costa Rica through a few winter seasons is rain. The winter season is also derogatorily called our “wet” season, but we in the Costa Rica vacation biz frown on that negative description. No, we have a much more commercially viable description for those thinking of a visit during that time […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear Mr Cutts: I am a guy who makes a meager living in Costa Rica designing and managing Costa Rica vacations. I own and operate the online vacation planning company with the web site www.packagecostarica.com. I have been doing that since 2003. I am a permanent resident of Costa Rica. Around mid-2012 I noticed a […]
There is something fascinating about a river. A river is perhaps given birth by a small pool of fresh water high in the mountains. In Costa Rica we have two coastlines, the Pacific and the Caribbean. The unwavering law of gravity pulls the water in one direction or the other, towards one of our coasts, […]
I can remember on one of my first trips to Costa Rica, back in 2001, when the owner of the university I was working for paid for me and my assistant to take a trip over to the Caribbean side. I wanted to do a little surfing and they chose for me the tiny village […]
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