We celebrated our 28-year anniversary with a week in Tamarindo. It was a true bleisure trip (business + leisure) because we booked the trip to renew our Costa Rican bank card and jumpstart a kitchen renovation. As luck would have it, the best airfares and the most opportune time in-between other commitments turned out to be our anniversary week! So, we were able to bookend very unromantic trips to the [...]
We miss travel but were anxious about traveling out of the country while our kids aren’t fully launched and somehow getting stuck outside the US for an extended period. At the same time, we were anxious about how our properties were doing in Tamarindo and Langosta and just curious about how Costa Rica was doing after Covid. I had received two free airline certificates from JetBlue as part of a [...]
The Costa Rica Tourism Board is awarding 15 residents of the US and Canada (excluding Quebec somehow) an all-expenses paid vacation to Costa Rica. I don’t know what area of Costa Rica (there are 12 microclimates), but the contest prize description includes: Coach roundtrip air transportation for twoSix nights of hotel accommodations$200 in meal vouchersGround transportTravel insurance Here’s the link to enter if you’re feeling lucky! Even if you’re not [...]
This is part of an ongoing series where we highlight things that we love about Costa Rica. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Costa Rica has become the first country in Central America to allow same-sex marriage. This process has been a long time coming - it was back in January 2018 that Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that all of it's signatory countries (which includes Costa Rica) must grant [...]
We just finished spending 30 full days in Costa Rica, by far our longest trip anywhere! We wanted to see what an extended stay would feel like, and also experience the rainier season in the country. All in all, a very successful trip. Since geo-arbitage in Costa Rica is a possibility for us going forward, we were also curious to know how much it would cost for us to spend [...]
I didn't make this up. Costa Rica is literally Champion Of The Earth! Champions of the Earth is the UN’s highest environmental honor, and it celebrates outstanding figures from the public and private sectors and from civil society whose actions have had a transformative, positive impact on the environment. Costa Rica was named for 2019 in the policy leadership category. We recently started a series on the blog where we [...]
We’re staying in Costa Rica for a full month, so it’s a great experiment in day-to-day living. One of my goals for our stay this time was trying out the health care. I decided to start with a visit to the dentist since I am in-between dentists at home. My regular New York City dentist was on a sabbatical. I tried a neighborhood dentist in Riverdale but wasn’t 100% convinced [...]
Caroline and I just finished up our first week in Costa Rica. We will be here for just about a month in total. Our prior trips have all just been a few days. Normally at that point we'd be heading home, but since we are now empty-nesters, there is no rush, and we are happy to still have more than 3 weeks remaining in this trip! We are not adventure [...]
While there are many great places around the world for people to spend their retirement or in an effort to downsize, or become financially independent, Caroline and I have come to love Costa Rica. It is reinforced on a regular basis when I hear about Costa Rica in the news. Here are some of the interesting things I have seen over the last few weeks: While deforestation is a problem [...]
One of my favorite parts about owning vacation rental property in Costa Rica is that we have business reasons to visit, making our trips tax-deductible! It is also fun to experience business in another country and culture. We had just six days in Guanacaste, but we squeezed out a lot of work and play. Day 1: Sunset at Playa Brasilito The flight from New York City to Liberia is about [...]
