To live in the Tropics is to live on the front line of climate change, which just means that things tend to hit our delicate mountain cloud forest first. Most of it seems to do with water. The amount that falls, the droughts or floods that result, the animal life that changes patterns to findContinue reading “Happy Earth Day. Woo-hoo.”
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‘Tis la temporada
Allow me to let you in on a little secret. Holidays (be it 4th of July, Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, or the mother of them all, Christmas) aren’t real. They are a construct we fabricate in an attempt to make a certain moment of time more special than another moment of time. TheContinue reading “‘Tis la temporada”
Pura Food
I never had high expectations for the food in Costa Rica. I figured there was probably a reason I had never been to a Costa Rican restaurant in my life. When I started this journey, I would not have been able to name a Costa Rican dish. My greatest hope was that there would beContinue reading “Pura Food”
This Last Year Has Been, Well, You Know…
This week is filled with mileposts. Monday marked one month since we first arrived in Costa Rica. The time has gone fast. But it has meant some serious adjustments to the pace of life. One thing I like about this life is that the focus of each day is very much on the needs ofContinue reading “This Last Year Has Been, Well, You Know…”
Dreaming and scheming
In considering destinations, three have floated atop the list: Costa Rica, France, and Spain. I know, all of these things are not like the others. Not to say that other locales won’t pop up on the list, but in our short round of investigations, these are simply the places that initially ping our hearts. ShortContinue reading “Dreaming and scheming”
Cross the Abyss 