While living in Costa Rica, we have to renew our visas every 90 days (sometimes shorter depending on the Customs Agent we get). Last year we ventured north to Nicaragua for a few days and this year we decided to head south and visit Panama. The islands on the northwest side of Panama called Bocas DelKeep Reading!
Our final day in San Jose, we decided to do a coffee plantation tour. Many of our friends had suggested going on the Britt tour (the largest of the Costa Rican Coffee sellers), but every person we spoke with in San Jose would huff about that tour and they all suggested doing the Three GenerationsKeep Reading!
Yesterday we ventured into the capital city of San Jose for the first time. We hailed a cab, and Nelson, our driver, took us all over San Jose to see the sites from the road on our way to our final destination, the Children’s Museum. I’m glad we took as cab, as the museum isKeep Reading!
Costa Rica is not a very large country (geographically) and while we have seen quite a bit of it, we headed back to Colorado last summer knowing that we had so much more of Costa Rica we wanted to explore. When we officially decided this past Fall to journey back to Costa Rica for anotherKeep Reading!
We’ve been back in Costa Rica for 3 weeks now, and while things really haven’t changed much around our favorite little town, our life is quite a bit different this winter, primarily because the kids are going to school. For the first time in CR, Erin and I have our mornings free. I’ve been ableKeep Reading!
Soccer Me and my brother were playing soccer at the beach before the sun set. We had a little bit of time before dark. We had a lot of friends at the beach. There were a lot of dogs there. Me and my brother would play pass sometimes. When it got dark me and myKeep Reading!
The Bon Fire. At the bon fire there were lots of people. Me and Jacob played soccer. Abby played with her friends and my dad and mom/Erin and Matt talked with there friends. The sun went down very quick. my dad put a go pro on the sand and filmed the sun set. Me and JacobKeep Reading!
November in Costa Rica is a magical time, everything is green, you might have a little rain and the weather is calm and cooler. It’s probably our favorite time of the year to be in Costa Rica. 2012 was no exception when we came down to Costa Rica with friends to celebrate Thanksgiving. The weekKeep Reading!
Rincon de La Vieja Here is the next segment from our feature length presentation, this time from Rincon de la Vieja (the Old Woman’s Corner). It was a full day of adventure from Sun up to Sun down. What a perfect way to celebrate New Years Eve!Keep Reading!
I’ve been working on a video of our Journey to Costa Rica for the past few months. It’s nearly complete, and eventually, I will put the whole thing online for those of you brave enough to endure the feature length version, but for now, I am going to add some pieces of it over theKeep Reading!
Wow, it’s been a long time since we’ve written. Life has been quite a whirlwind since we came back to Colorado. It’s been great to be home, but it has also left me longing for the quieter life of Tamarindo. Summer in Colorado means swim team, summer camp for the kids, and my favorite holidayKeep Reading!
After arriving home from the amusement park at Tibidabo, we dropped the kids off with a sitter and headed into Barcelona for an adult night on the town. Our first stop was to the Le Meridien hotel to have drinks with some friends of ours that happened to be traveling through Barcelona that evening. OurKeep Reading!
When I took spanish in High School, I really didn’t learn a whole lot.. It was my fault, I didn’t really care at the time, I was taking the class because I had to have language credit. I wish I had paid more attention and learned more, but like so many things from my youth,Keep Reading!
Arriving in Barcelona after Costa Rica was a welcome shock to our systems. We left our sleepy surfing town on a tuesday morning, and by wednesday evening we had traveled through 5 countries and landed in Barcelona, Spain. We were greeted with open arms by our friends from Colorado (now living in Spain) David andKeep Reading!
It’s been a little while since I’ve written anything, life has been in a whirlwind for the last 9 days. We have been on some great adventures, seen a lot of things and spent time with some very dear friends along the way. It all started with leaving Costa Rica. We spent a few daysKeep Reading!
It was six months ago that we arrived in Costa Rica though it feels like a lifetime ago. At the same time though, it feels like I blinked and 6 months was over. I woke up this morning reflecting on the fact that this is our last weekend in Costa Rica for this portion ofKeep Reading!
Abby is back in the water this week surfing and we’re so excited for her. She’s made incredible progress in just a week. She started the week catching super mellow white wash and now she has evolved to trying to paddle and even catching real waves. It’s been a blast to watch. Here’s a quickKeep Reading!
The beaches of Tamarindo are filled with locals, visitors and people selling stuff to the tourists. On any given day you will find no less than 50 “beach vendors” walking the beach, peddling their wares. These vendors are not regulated (from what we can tell) at all, and thus walk into the restaurants, approach youKeep Reading!
Last Thursday I got a call from our friend Elsy and she told me about a surf competition that was going on in Tamarindo that coming weekend and she wanted to know if we were interested in coming. “Sure!” I replied, assuming that she meant to watch. As the conversation went on, I realized thatKeep Reading!
I am addicted to speaking spanish. I’ve learned a ton, but I have a really really long way to go. Erin is always laughing at my crazy attempts to speak in spanish, especially when I try to explain something complicated or with many layers. Erin and I have been reflecting this week about how differentKeep Reading!