Meet Ricardo Ávila, Costa Rica National Artist
I walk through the doors of the Museo de Arte Costarricense, the national art museum in San José, and enter the first exhibit to the left. Before I even…
I walk through the doors of the Museo de Arte Costarricense, the national art museum in San José, and enter the first exhibit to the left. Before I even…
Some of my readers may be curious about how I spend my weekends here in the Costa Rican rainforest. Well, said readers, today is your lucky day. I’m here to…
This Valentine’s Day there was a lot more than love flowing at Side Street Bistro near the shores of Playa Jacó, Costa Rica. By night, the trendy sandwich shop and bar was…
England has Stonehenge, Egypt has the Pyramids and Costa Rica has... spheres? Costa Rica Stone Spheres Hundreds of stone spheres were discovered in the 1930's in Southwestern Costa Rica, in…
It seems that San José, Costa Rica gets painted in the same negative light in every guidebook I read. “San José is congested, bustling and noisy,” says the Moon Handbook…
My exploration of Costa Rica has been off to a slow start. Well, at least that’s how I feel when I think back to how jam-packed my travel schedule…
“Listo?” the guide at Canopy la Carpintera asks as he completes his safety check of my harness and carabiners. I nod my head and then one-two-three - I am ziplining…
Jeff Pickett and I sit in blue and green beanbag chairs on the wooden patio at Coral Reef Surf Hostel. The sun burns hot today in Tamarindo, a surf…
In my day to day life living and working in the Costa Rican rainforest, I get a lot of interesting visitors. Some have eight legs, most crawl, and nearly all…
From the outskirts of Tres Rios, a city at roughly 4,400 feet in Costa Rica’s Central Valley, we drive to the west, winding up, up, up enroute to the summit…