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Photo Essay: Costa Rica 🇨🇷
I take a lot of pictures when we travel. A LOT of pictures. Probably approaching an annoying amount of pictures. But when I post them, I try to curate. I choose the top 10-15 photos that represent the day and edit them. Because no one wants to see 113 un-edited vacation photos. No one. After…
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🍹 🇨🇷 What to Drink in Costa Rica: A Sip-by-Sip Guide to Costa Rican Drinks Culture
When we’re traveling, I post my little travelogues on the go and off the cuff. Instagram only allows 2,200 characters per post, so I have to be stingy with words. Maybe that’s a good thing. 😉 One of the reasons I started this blog is so I can take a pause after our trips, and…
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Villa Nueva, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Travel date: July 6, 2024 Serious question: How do women in Costa Rica get through menopause without bursting into flames? To wit: visited an organic spice farm north of Quepos today. Sun stayed behind the clouds which was a nice respite. But still fucken HOT . Guide says: today is a perfect day, I’m not…
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Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Travel date: July 5, 2024 Seriously. I’m melting. I cannot properly explain myself in this climate. Visited Manuel Antonio National Park today. Can sum up our day thusly: beautiful park, waaaay too many fuken people. We had an energetic guide. But there were hundreds of energetic guides, all carrying giant spotting scopes, jumping from one…
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Paquita, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Travel date: July 4, 2024 Update: Still hot. Still humid. One of the things I enjoy most about traveling is learning about and experiencing other cultures, and today’s experience was incredible. We traveled to the small town of Paquita to go horseback riding on a family farm (Rancho Tipico Don Juan). Our guide, Randall (who…
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Quepos, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Travel date: July 3, 2024 Adventure Day! I was talked into kayaking through the mangroves today with a naturalist guide. Sometimes, I cannot believe the shit I agree to while on vacation. Rest of our group had a fun beach day. But before kayaking: We learned all about how to harvest “palm dates”, which are…
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Quepos, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Travel day: July 2, 2024 Humidity = 255% Ken and the big kids went paddle boarding this morning. Rest of the group went zip lining. Even in vacation adventure mode, I’m skipping both of those activities. The sloths we watched yesterday have not moved. In fact, they added a third sloth to the tree party.…
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Quepos, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Travel Date: July 1, 2024 Humidity = 98%. I will never complain about humidity in DC again. That’s a lie. I totally will. But this place is next level humid. A few of our group went deep sea fishing today. There is not enough scopolamine to make me think it is a good idea to…
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San Juan & Quepos, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Travel date: June 30, 2024 We are in Costa Rica this week to celebrate Ken’s mom’s 80th birthday with family. Our flight left Dulles at 3am yesterday morning. This is an absurd hour to travel. 0/10 do not recommend. Today, I’m grateful for scopolamine patches. The three hour car trip from San Jose Airport to…
The Flask Half Full
Because the best stories rarely make it into the brochure.