This is a recap, after living in Costa Rica for almost 2 years (and going up). The good things and the not so good things. Of course, nothing is black and white and the truth is very subjective.These are points I’m writing as a person who lives here and not vacationing here, but it can…
Romy, our firstborn child, celebrated 13 years last Sunday (when did that happen?). So as a family tradition, we made a little trip, and this time we decided to go and celebrate in beautiful Montezuma. We actually lived in Montezuma during our first month in Costa Rica a year and a half ago. To get to Montezuma…
I’ve always been fascinated by the beautiful creature called manta ray. Its shape is one of the most marvelous I’ve ever seen. But recently I found out very painfully that he has an evil step brother who stings, and he stings so bad! The pain was the biggest pain I had ever felt (and I…
For this border run in Panama in the Caribbean side. We lived in the beautiful Caribbean side of Costa Rica, so it made the most sense to go to Panama border in the Caribbean side. We drove from Cahuita, where we used to live, to Sixaola which borders with Panama. It’s less then an hour and…
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu How many times did you search for answers in the outside world only to discover that the truth comes from within ourselves? The answer to everything is always here inside of us. Nature is connected to us in the same way and it’s up to…
Sometimes (maybe most of the time) you don’t want to see the bitter truth until it hits you. On March 2020 my mother past away, after suffering for months in the hospital. She was sick for 17 years, but the last 3 years of her life were really bad. When my mother past away the whole…
This time we decided to go to Nicaragua. The natural option was to go to Panama border on the pacific side which is less then 2 hours driving from where we live now. BUT we did go there (not knowing that we needed a flight ticket back from Panama to Costa Rica), because usually they…