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
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
After our red-eye flight and taking a taxi into town we were able to check into our hostel early. After a nap to catch up on sleep from staying up most of the previous two nights we headed into town. We stopped by the bus station to pick up our tickets for the next day… Continue Reading
We met up with our friends James & Shelley for a few days in New Orleans after Thanksgiving. This is not our comprehensive guide to New Orleans, this is just what we did on this recent trip. We try to make it to at least one or two new places each visit and we have… Continue Reading
I wrote a guest post about Indianapolis for Michael & Larissa at Changes in Longitude. They have a series of articles on Free Things to Do and Interesting Things to Do in locations all over the globe. Lucky for me there aren’t a lot of people writing about Indianapolis. And while it may never be… Continue Reading
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