We enjoy a proper pub crawl as much as the average Edgar Wright movie character but alcohol is expensive and if we’re going to do a pub crawl we’ll save it for when we visit a country with a pub culture. One of our favorite ways to save money when traveling is to self-cater and… Continue Reading
I’ll be perfectly honest, Costa Rica wasn’t my idea. I was ready to start off in South America but Julie wanted to make a pit stop. It would count as our “vacation”. A warm up to the entire trip. I knew better than to argue and it’s not like I didn’t want to go. I… Continue Reading
The plan last night was to finish up our Costa Rica wrap up post and have it ready to publish by lunch today. But after waking up we decided that sitting in our room in Huarocondo typing would be a poor way to spend our first full day in the Andes especially when this is… Continue Reading
Key-pose? No, it’s pronounced K-pose. Darn it, I said it wrong again. Spanish is the language I am supposed to be good at speaking. Over the last 13 years, I spent too long traveling the Midwest and other US cities that pronounce things their own way. It looks like we could be in for a… Continue Reading
While “traveling” is indeed great, it is being there that is the fun part. Travel days themselves, save for the ones that feature breathtaking scenery, are pretty awful even if you do get exit row seats. They generally take up a lot of time so you don’t get much work done. They wear you out… Continue Reading
Our guided tour in Monteverde Cloud Forest was scheduled for 7:30am. This is when most tours start there. The early morning is the best time to catch the animals. If we wanted to take the bus to the park we needed to take the first one at 6:15 a.m. Ugh. Most of our friends know… Continue Reading
Truth be told I’m about as Italian as pickled herring. Supposedly my distant German ancestors were originally from Italy, but any way you slice it I’m at an absolute minimum 500 years removed from Italy and I didn’t grow up with any Italian relatives, traditions or recipes. Almost everything I know I’ve picked up from… Continue Reading
A big reason people come to Costa Rica is its wild life and I am not talking about the crazy, drunk college kids in the popular surf towns. Mark and I gave most of that up a while ago. We wanted to get up close and personal with nature, so we headed to Santa Elena.… Continue Reading
We haven’t even been in Costa Rica for two weeks and our first few days in the Arenal area seem like a distant memory. I’ll chalk that up to how relaxing things are right now in Quepos. More on that later. On our second day we left San Jose and headed north to La Fortuna.… Continue Reading
While hiking through the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve Julie discovered this little guy: I walked right on by. Almost stepped on it more than likely. After a few steps I heard the standard “Oh shit there’s a spider” alarm from Julie. Based on the decibel level I wasn’t expecting anything larger than what we… Continue Reading
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