I like most of what I see when I travel around but, every once in a while, I am blown away by something and today was one of those days. Proyecto Asis started 23 years ago, with a goal of rescuing animals in peril and rehabilitating and releasing the ones they can. They operate a […]
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Sampling the fine cuisine of the Italian people
Don Olivo’s Chocolate farm has been making chocolate in La Fortuna for 90 years. It is an extremely small operation, run by the son and grandchildren of Don Olivo. Here is a photo as we pulled into the driveway for the farm. It’s a little hard to see how this family supports itself as, over […]
Traveling to Costa Rica to help Bill plan his trip to Florida
One thing I have learned to splurge on is arrival transportation as I feel we’ve had enough wandering around in airports, looking for $5 EasyBus rides that only operate from remote terminals and feel that no-signage-whatsoever is a solid business practice. So for Costa Rica, I chose Morpho Vans to pick us up and take […]
Traveling on a budget, of sorts
The reason we are going to Costa Rica is that we had a $99 Alaska Air companion fare that was due to expire. This is similar to the reason we went to China when I found the $700 nonstop fares to Beijing and Shanghai. Experience would indicate that these cheap airfares do not benefit me […]
Travels with Valerie 