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 […]
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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 […]
Just one more reason to wish I was Canadian
One of the things I wanted to see in Vancouver was the Police Museum and so I had put that on the list for yesterday. But Ron felt it was important that yesterday be the day we did our misguided walk to UBC, based on his assessment that the weather would be “pretty good” on […]
Travels with Valerie 