Costa Rica Trip, Day 6 – Thanksgiving with Hurricane Otto

Thanksgiving has long been a favorite holiday of mine. Getting together with my loved ones and sharing massive quantities of food – what’s not to love? Thanksgiving 2016 strayed a bit from tradition for us. Not only were we in a foreign country, far away from family, but said country was expecting to be hit […]

Costa Rica Trip, Day 5 – Baldi Hot Springs

So many hot springs, so little time… Ecotermales, Tabacon, Baldi, The Springs Resort, or the free springs by the side of the road? We decided to go to Baldi Hot Springs because a.) it was the cheapest, and b.) it offered so many different pools (supposedly 25, but that’s counting the little cooling-off pools next […]

Costa Rica Trip, Day 4 – Arenal Volcano & Ecocentro Danaus

The main attraction of La Fortuna is Volcan Arenal – the tall, nearly-perfect cone that lurks just west of town. The history of the volcano is so interesting to me – people used to live and farm at the base of it, either not realizing it was a volcano, or thinking that it was dormant. […]

Costa Rica Trip, Day 3 – La Catarata Fortuna & The Rainforest Chocolate Tour

On Monday morning, while our friends and family back home were commuting to work in the cold and snow, Dave and I were preparing to visit our first Costa Rican waterfall! Of course we had to start with the hotel breakfast – fruit, eggs, gallo pinto, and toast – which was just what we needed […]

Costa Rica Trip, Day 2 – Exploring Fortuna

On Sunday morning, we woke to the sounds of exotic birds and animals chirping and calling in the trees outside our room. Ah, vacation. More adventurous folk may have chosen to rise early and run off to explore the volcano, or glide through the canopy on a zipline, but not us. We leisurely woke up, […]

Costa Rica Trip, Day 1 – Getting There

Getting to La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica is no simple trip. After staying up until 11:30 to pack, we had to get up again at 1:30 am to go to the airport. We got there so early that the check-in counter wasn’t even open yet, which meant that we stood in line for a […]

Costa Rica Zipline Video

I hereby present my first video made with GoPro Studio! You might be surprised by how long it actually took to make this, and as I watch, I keep seeing bits and pieces I want to modify, but I will leave it at this…. it is my first try, after all. 🙂 I hope you […]

Excuse me, but your roof is full of cacti.

We saw some unusual things in Costa Rica. Unusual to us, that is. Maybe this is a normal situation in warm weather locations. It may be hard to see in the picture, which I snapped as we drove past. This real estate office has a terracotta roof, which was covered with little cacti. I thought it […]

California Dreaming

California recap – continued from my last post. Saturday morning, I woke up and hit the trail. I had my eye on it all week, as it was right across the street from the hotel. Dave and I walk on the rail trail near us quite often, so I thought it would be cool to […]

Home Again

It always feels good to come home. Mom and I bade farewell to Colorado yesterday. We left the resort at 6:30 in the morning and drove to the Denver airport. The sun was in my eyes the whole way and I was irritable but I managed to get us there in one piece. We were […]