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Having fully recovered from the Costa Rica trip that I set up to avoid the imminent expiration of the Alaska Airlines companion fare, we are about to embark on a World War II-focused journey that is not rooted in my typical bargain mentality. This is a trip rising from the splendor of my upcoming 50th […]

Everyone in Costa Rica that we have met in the service industry has monumental plans.  Our last driver, Tony, who brought along the totally unauthorized passenger on our “private” transfer, also happens to have a PhD in Biology from a university in Florida and he, much like our original driver, Bill, plans a multimillion dollar […]

It’s a good thing we’re visiting in the dry season so that it’s only rained every single day so far. We’ve moved from the mountainous region of La Fortuna and are now on the Pacific Coast in Manuel Antonio.  It was a mere 5 hour drive but we were back with our Morpho Vans drivers […]

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 […]