A word about Quepos, the town in which we stayed most of the week. Quepos is a district and the capital of Aguirre canton in Puntarenas Province. The population is about 22,000 people. Although the town is about 60 km. south (in a straight line) from Costa Rica’s capital, San José, it is 157 km from that city by road, and the traffic was […]
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A Wee Visitor
We had a little visitor today. I was laying on the bed going through photos when I noticed movement in the window. Turns out… it was a monkey, I believe of the Squirrel Monkey variety. Turns out he was quite a natural model. Even though I’ve probably deleted about a hundred pics of him, there […]
Gone Fishing
On Friday afternoon we finally went fishing. There had been a series of weather delays and assorted issues, but we made it out onto the water. Our guide was Danny, and the boat owner was Juan. We high-tailed it out to a bunch of islands and rocks soutwest of Manuel Antonio. I had asked Danny […]
Playa Playitas
We decided to go to the beach, so we asked Annie Lambert, a neighbor who helps out Kevin, (we’re at Kevin’s place), where to go. Annie did not disappoint. She found us a driver who took us to Playa Playita. When we were at Manuel Antonio yesterday, they claimed that Playa Numero Tres, the beach […]
Manuel Antonio
Manuel Antonio is two first names. Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio is a small National Park in on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, just south of the city of Quepos. Established in 1972 with a land area of about 3 square miles (the smallest of any Costa Rican national park), it is the destination of as many as 150,000 visitors annually and well […]
En Route to Quepos
Happy New Year 2018! Here’s hoping there are a few changes from 2017, that people start talking to each other, and that crypto-currency keeps booming. We started 2018 en route from the Monte Verde cloud forest to Quepos, our ultimate destination in Costa Rica. The roads from Monte Verde down to highway 1, the Pan-American […]
New Years at El Establo
We kind of took the easy way out on this trip and used a company called Pacific Trade Winds to help us plan our trip. They had a nice service, and Amy, our person on the ground in Costa Rica, was very helpful. At any rate, we kind of just accepted the lodging and transport that they […]
Selvatura
We’re baaaack! Ellen and I, and our good friend Marlene, flew into Liberia, Costa Rica on the afternoon of Saturday, December 30th. It was 14 degrees below zero when we left MSP. Liberia had a high of 90 degrees the day we arrived. The sun set quickly, so we weren’t able to see much as […]
Door County Grandma Turns 90 6 Months Prematurely !
Okay really! This doesn’t look like a 90 year old grandma. Well of course, that is because she isn’t. She’s only 89 and a half. The big event this summer in Door County was clearly the celebration of my mother’s 90th birthday. Granted, it doesn’t occur until January, but she decided to go ahead and […]
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Best Bathrooms Ever!
On the way to Door County from Little Compton we decided to drive through Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I was born and raised in Sheboygan. While I was in high school, I worked as a janitor at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. The job was much more than janitoring. I helped set up shows, was the […]