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This Costa Rica Blog is for the benefit of anyone interested in knowing about Costa Rica for purposes of traveling, investing, retiring, or anything else! The writer has lived and owned and operated a business in Costa Rica for many years and offers the perspective of a gringo who has made the transition culturally, economically and in every other way to the Costa Rica life. I hope you enjoy my blog. Pura Vida Mae!
The author is a beachboy from South Carolina. Visited Costa Rica for the first time in 2001 on business and stayed forever! Now operates a travel and real estate business in Costa Rica and consults with folks desiring to make the transition to Costa Rica life.
Recent Posts
Tico Students Petition Against Global Climate Change
Primary and Secondary school students in Costa Rica have written some 40,000 letters to world political leaders asking for immediate action against global climate change. What they are requesting from these leaders is a specific plan of action a...
Arias to Bring “Pura Vida a Palestina”
The president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, plans to make a trip to the war torn Middle East in an attempt to convince the Palestinians to de-militarize, as Costa Rica chose to do in 1948. Arias will first arrive in Turkey, where he hopes to develop...
Hotel Riu - Have the Conquistadors Returned?
The Spanish Conquistadors that arrived to Costa Rica’s shores in the early 1500’s did quite a bit of damage to the people and their land. Have they returned in the form of the Spanish hotel chain, Riu? The company recently opened a me...
Marriages for Convenience - Now a Crime in Costa Rica
I hate to say I told ya so, but I did tell you so! I have written in my other blog (365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica), as well as a Squidoo Lens on the topic, about the dangers of “marriages for convenience.” In case you are puzzled ...
30,000 Species Catalogued in New Web Site
The web site is the project of MINAET (Ministry of Energy, Environment and Telecommunications), INBio (National Institute of Biodiversity), OET (Organization for Tropical Studies), the Costa Rican National Museum, and SINAC (National System of Areas...
Losing Paradise? Costa Rica’s Murder Rate Rises
Being in the tourism business I am not one to normally spread negative news about Costa Rica. But you would have to be the proverbial ostrich with his head in the sand not to have noticed that things have gotten particularly more violent these days...


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