towels packed, will travel

5 min read 2022-06-07 04:13:11

Volcanic Tournament

There was no Volcanic Tournament the first time D lived in Costa Rica, but there was a fledgling Ultimate frisbee scene, largely dominated by expat

3 min read 2022-06-06 05:54:44

For a few months it felt like Nikon was gaslighting us. “Your camera has been refurbished, cleaned, tested, and confirmed to perform to spec,”

3 min read 2022-06-03 00:14:26

After spending several days at the Arenal Observatory with D’s parents in April, we returned to La Fortuna over the Memorial Day weekend so that D

2 min read 2022-06-01 04:31:36

Much like the end of May, when we leveraged a holiday weekend to revisit old favorite haunts and explore some new territory, we began this month with

5 min read 2022-05-26 23:43:00

After spending the better part of a week in one of Costa Rica’s birdiest areas and exploring to his heart’s content, D was prepared to put away

3 min read 2022-05-24 03:28:58

At the beginning there was utter confusion: plenty of raw emotion and few words to make sense of it all. Love is messy like that sometimes. In D’s

2 min read 2022-05-21 02:35:36

Because Costa Rica is a small but incredibly biodiverse country, its abrupt climatic changes can catch an unsuspecting visitor off-guard. In fact, we

4 min read 2022-05-19 02:12:22

After visiting Sarapiqui, Arenal, and Rio Celeste, we parted ways with D’s parents. They took the kids back to San Jose while we traveled on toward

3 min read 2022-05-17 03:00:55

Lunch hour on a typical Monday afternoon. Several hours of trench warfare have led to incremental advances against a veritable onslaught of

3 min read 2022-05-16 01:28:30

This weekend marks the midpoint of our first year in Costa Rica — we are now just as far removed from that point three months ago when we were

3 min read 2022-05-14 22:43:49

We have spilled a lot of digital ink in the six months since our move to Costa Rica gushing about the country’s incredible birdlife, and with good

3 min read 2022-05-12 10:40:44

At one point during our travels last month, S forbade D to leave our hotel room without his birding camera. That happened when we went on what we

2 min read 2022-05-10 11:29:36

We spent two days in Rio Celeste, our wet but beautiful hike in Tenorio Volcano National Park sandwiched in between two sunny, gorgeous afternoons at

2 min read 2022-05-08 00:33:51

A most curious, almost magical phenomenon awaits visitors to Costa Rica’s Tenorio Volcano National Park. In addition to the namesake volcano, the

4 min read 2022-05-04 23:40:24

The Arenal volcano may have cooled down over the last decade, but there’s another sense in which it remains Costa Rica’s hottest hotspot. EBird,