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Like most of my lists, this list was started out of a need I had for this type of info/help and I obsessed from there!! Here's a Spanish/English Translation List of Things you might find on a Menu or in the Grocery Store!  This BIG list is a work in...

LOURDES DE CIRRÍ, Alajuela (Costa Rica) — It looked like rain when Francisco Mena got into his truck with one of his two daughters, 12-year-old Alessia, to go look for a coffee roaster from the U.S. and his family who were visiting Finca Sumava. The...

  Costa Rica has a bit of a rip-roaring reputation to maintain. After all, over the past several decades, adrenaline junkies have built an adventure-tourism industry out of the country’s verdant, ocean-to-sea landscape and Ring of Fire terrain...

All day long, you can hear their voices. “¡Kölbi! ¡Claro! ¡MoviStar!” “¡Aguacates! ¡Cinco por quinientos! ¡Aguacates!” “¡Plátanos aquí, plátanos!” They chant and call. They gesture and gesticulate. They rock on the balls of their feet and swing their...

This is the next in a series of portraits, long and short, of some of the people I met and places I visited during a recent trip to Costa Rica. The subjects were chosen as noteworthy examples of Costa Rica’s distinct pura vida. Return to the main...