Five years ago, Sean and I found ourselves in a place we didn’t want to be. We made a decision (together) to make a wholesale change in the direction of our lives. We counted the costs and decided what was immovable and unchangeable. For us, keeping our marriage strong and intact and raising our family […]
When Sean came into my life. He had long hair and big dreams of being a rock star. A few months later we went on our first date then he moved 500 miles away. The whole story of our long distant relationship is in this blog post I wrote last year. I can’t fully express […]
Today is Mother’s day. For me it’s a little more like Thanksgiving day. I have so much to be thankful for, my mother who (next to Sean) has been my best friend through all of my adult years. She is one of the only people I will have an extended conversation on the phone with. […]
Surrounded by some of my closest friends, we wiggled our toes in the sand for a glorious beach day. Feeling the salt air stick to our skin and hair as the cool breeze wrapped around us we just enjoyed the moment, and the opportunity to be. About an hour into our basking, a little boy […]
Visiting Costa Rica always changes my perspective on many day to day things when I return to the States and our life here. A while ago I wrote a blog post titled “Walking Around the World in Flip Flops” in that post I referred back to one of our first visits to Costa Rica about […]
Wednesday morning arrived and it was time to pack up our little black backpacks, climb down from our treehouse with the oceanview, and begin our 2,000 mile journey home. Speaking of those little back packs…I still could have left half of what I brought at home. Life is so simple and carefree here, not much […]
After finishing our homemade dasayuno (breakfast) we decided to spend the day exploring the coast. We first went south, just beyond Uvita and Playa Balleña (which means whale’s tail) we had visited that particular beach before so we continued further south to Playa Ventana (which means Windows) I believe we paid 1,500 colones ($3) for […]
Saturday we took the day to just relax and enjoy the treehouse property. We eventually made our way to Dominical which is only a mile or so down the road. We walked around town noticing the changes that have been made since we were last here about six or seven years ago. Many of the […]
We boarded the 8:45am flight from Orlando, with a quick flight change in Ft Lauderdale. Two and a half hours later we were touching down in San Jose, Costa Rica. This is my sixth trip to this country, and I don’t think I could get tired of coming here. I still did not know any […]
Locals and tourists alike were beginning to pack in and stand shoulder to shoulder as Sean and Henny were playing a few songs in their set to kick off the weekly Wednesday night open mic jam session. I was exhausted from an already full day of work and play, but sat on a barstool with […]