by Gregorio | Mar 17, 2018 | Moving to Costa Rica
Guest post by Jason Mueller Jason moved to Costa Rica 4.5 years ago and is loving the ‘pura vida” lifestyle. He spends most of his time working at his adventure business in Costa Rica www.jacoropes.com. Some people have asked, why in the world would a...
by Gregorio | Dec 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Moving to and living in Costa Rica was certainly an adventure. How does one follow that up? With another adventure of course. On September 16, 2017 Jen and I summited Mount Katahdin in Maine. This 5-mile climb was the culmination of 179 days of hiking that started in...
by Gregorio | Sep 24, 2016 | Attempts at Humor, Books, Cost of Living, Costa Rica, Moving to Costa Rica, Retirement, Travel, Uncategorized
You have read Costa Rica Curious the blog … now there is Costa Rica Curious the book. After working tirelessly (read: sporadically) on the book for two years, I have just published it in ebook form the story of our move to Costa Rica. The book starts in the...
by Gregorio | Jun 12, 2016 | Books, Costa Rica, Moving to Costa Rica, Retirement, Uncategorized
Three years ago, when my wife Jen and I left corporate America for Costa Rica, we had only a rough idea of what our future would hold. We knew the treadmill of earn-more and spend-more was no longer what we wanted. We had several years of savings built up to provide...
by Gregorio | Oct 2, 2015 | Costa Rica, Culture, Food, Uncategorized
Today guest blogger Steve Friedman writes a comprehensive guide to eating fish in Costa Rica. Steve blogs on his satirical site My Satirical Side. As always, thanks for providing your perspective. With two Oceans and lots of fresh water, fish is a regular staple in...
by Gregorio | Sep 16, 2015 | Costa Rica, Retirement, Uncategorized
I love music. I love live music. I love my wife. I do not really like Tim McGraw, but like I said, I love my wife. Because my wife loves many things about Tim McGraw, one of them his music, we had been to at least two McGraw concerts while living in Dallas. It could...
by Gregorio | Sep 1, 2015 | Animals, Attempts at Humor, Costa Rica, Guanacaste, Mammals, Travel
It’s not that I don’t notice things, I do, but I have always been a bit lackadaisical with things that do not pose an immediate problem. This trait has blossomed in our two years in Costa Rica, so as I stepped into the shower I didn’t think much about the drain cover...
by Gregorio | Aug 6, 2015 | Animals, Bugs, Costa Rica, FAQ
Did you know there exists an actual pain index for stings from bugs? Yep, the entomologist Justin O. Schmidt created the index that seeks to rank the painfulness of dozens of Hymenoptera stings across a four-point spectrum. His index (last updated in 1990), while...
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