So, are you fluent, they ask me? After being in this country for several years you would think so. I have found learning Spanish, and I am talking about the holy grail of “fluency” and not simply being able to ask where the bathroom is, to be one of the great struggles of my 47 […]
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One thing you get used after living in Costa Rica through a few winter seasons is rain. The winter season is also sometime called our “wet” season, but we in the travel biz frown on that negative description. Instead we like to refer to that time of the year as the “green” season. The idea […]
ICE (no it is not pronounced the same as frozen water, but “ee-say”) is our government run utility that provides every household and business with its electrical power (via the division CNFL) and telephone service. At the present time there are no alternatives to ICE, so you’d better be nice. ICE is a beloved institution […]
I remember the very first time I visited Monteverde. Yuri and I drove up there in a Hyundai Sedan, which has very little undercarriage clearance and is certainly not meant for off-road activity. It was Yuri’s car and he warned me sternly that it was not the right vehicle for such an adventure. I told […]
This is a resurrection of an early post to my first blogger blog. One can easily see right away upon visiting Costa Rica that ticos love their dogs. Driving through the countryside you will see dogs of all breeds and generally in well-fed and healthy condition. The exception is San Jose where like most big […]
Okay I am sure anyone who might actually be reading this stuff is thinking, now your stretching it Costa Rica Guy! San Jose traffic has to rival anything in the world, in negative terms. Maybe there are not as many cars on the road as say New York City, but the condition of the roads […]
Costa Rica has many contrasts that I have often written about in these posts. However, I can think of no greater contrast than the Caribbean side with the rest of the country. In this post I am specifically talking about the Southern Caribbean coast, the area from Puerto Limon to the Panamanian border. Some of […]
Since coming to Costa Rica I have shed many inhibitions. Inhibitions about dancing and singing (I now actually sing Karaoke in Spanish….something I never would have remotely considered a couple years ago). One thing I have not shed is the extra weight around my mid-section. Probably the single largest reason for that is that I […]
What is a “cloud forest” is a question I offer here from customers of Package Costa Rica, my travel company? Costa Rica, being a tropical yet mountainous country, is home to many cloud forests. Monteverde is likely the most widely known of such forests and thousands of tourists visit it each year. But there are […]
Since coming to Costa Rica I have become a lover of latin music and latin dance (see my squidoo lens…My Favorite Latin Music). After many lessons and a lot of practice, I have become what I would consider an “adequate”dancer of salsa and merengue. However, I am most interested in learning how to dance cumbia…tico […]
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