A personal post about a dream that turned into reality and then into a different dream. Because in life you've ...

Did the MEL Group purposely choose the same name as the aviation giant out of Suffolk U.K. or was the ...

Selling our 1990 Isuzu Trooper wasn't an easy thing to do and not for the reasons you might suspect. I ...

Can trading versus purchasing simplify your lifestyle? Short Answer: Maybe. This is our latest transaction. When I want something my mind ...

Renewing a Costa Rica drivers license, changing residency status and getting a vehicle inspection are all things that are easier ...

We are saving money by using a few Tico tricks, a bit of American ingenuity and improvising.We are currently working ...

Chestnuts in Central America? The breadnut tree, which is in the Mora family, produces a large oblong shaped fruit that ...

Possible Investments in Limon Province and Anticipated Growth This article was originally published on November 1st, 2013 in A.M. Costa ...

Three of our articles about the Carnival (Carnaval as it is known here) in the port city of Limon Costa ...

Arenal Volcano, the youngest volcano in Costa Rica and easily the most active is surrounded by Arenal Lake at its ...

Our house building project officially began in March of 2012 when we bought enough electrical cable to make it up ...

Joel La Rue Smith brings his former jazz students to Costa Rica as part of an international cultural envoy. This ...

How to get free trees (including tropical hardwoods), from Costa Rica's electricity provider, ICE. We applied and were approved for ...

Our cottage in the woods - Building a two-story house on our farm in Limon Costa Rica. We have pictures ...

Why we chose painted metal roofing, how we used bamboo to help with building, and combating water stains from the incessant ...

How to make Caribbean Rice n Beans using fresh coconuts, garden vegetables, and herbs. We visit restaurants that are owned ...

Our Building Project - Images of the progress since the last post (permission to project start), how very important a ...

Building Costa Rica - Obtaining Permission to Project Start Part 3 The waiting is over. We are finally starting our ...

Our Rain Forest Aerial Tram Day. What we thought of the place. Every once in a while we are lucky ...

Our move to Costa Rica This summary of our move to Costa Rica can be found at Living Abroad in ...

House Building Costa Rica Part 1. After buying the farm we needed to build our house. See Part 2 or Part ...

Things to think about before you buy a farm in Costa Rica Not everyone comes to Costa Rica with a ...

Port of Moin now and how it might change in the future. We live about 30 min West of the ...

2012 | Photography Exposition at the Antigua Aduana building in San Jose Costa Rica As a photography company in Costa Rica we ...

Naranjilla Fruit (Solanum quitoense) How it grows and how we use the fruit for juice Naranjilla (na-rang-E-ya) is a medium-sized, ...

Growing Coffee - Choosing the best plants for our altitude and soil type. The terrain here in Costa Rica varies ...

Independence Day San Miguel Limon - Building a farol for the celebration Faroles or Lanterns are made by Costa Rican's to celebrate their ...

Pan de Elote is Costa Rica Corn Bread using Fresh Corn from the Cob Growing corn in the rain forest is difficult. Growing ...

Biodiversity Park INBio in Heredia. We went for a mushroom festival and came out with so much more. A mushroom festival was mentioned in a local paper ...

Matapalo Guanacaste, getting there during a violent strike in Limon. Arriving to find a seemingly friendly resort which is draining ...

Flowers Costa Rica - A sampling of the many flowers we have here in San Miguel. The first plants pictured are ...

A Tropical Gnatcatcher Bird This is a sad story. I saw what appeared to be a little bird fall from ...

Common Tody Flycatcher Bird In order to give guests a better bird watching area in front of the cabins we ...

Starting a business in Costa Rica I remember talking up our business plan to anyone that would listen back in early ...

Banana Ceviche - how to use green bananas to make a fresh chilled soup Ceviche is a cold soup normally ...

DIY Beehive for Stingless Bees We have been wanting to practice bee keeping for a long time. In the U.S ...

7 Super Shots We received an e-mail from Erin at Delapuravida.com nominating us to participate in a blog/photography game started ...

The International Arts Festival San Jose, Costa Rica. A long day but totally worth it. I had a hell of ...

Mamones Fruit or Mamon Chino Everytime we take a walk around San Miguel we come back with armloads of whatever ...

Buy it or Make it? Do we have to buy everything or can we just make it ourselves? Barry and ...

How to get the very best vacation on a budget. Stay with a Peace Corps Volunteer. If you are interested ...

Country Living in Costa Rica - Clinic Visit & Rollerskating  You probably already know that we live in the country ...

Will Work for Beer - Finding Work in Costa Rica What if in some magical dreamland the "Will work for ...

Value of $4.50 in Costa Rica for an U.S. expat in 2012 There are a lot and I mean a ...

Three-Toed Sloth Rescue Video in Limon Costa Rica A Thunderstorm Knocked Stinky, the Three-Toed Sloth from a Tree We recently ...

New Year's| Celebrating a New Year in Costa Rica December 7th completed our first year here in Costa Rica. The New ...

A video on making tamales for christmas in Costa Rica. How we did our part by getting leaves from the ...

Beer Runs to Panama Everyone in Costa Rica knows that everything is cheaper in Panama. Liquor and Beer are 40% ...

Araza Fruit, Araca Boi (Eugenia stipitata) Identification & Uses Araza a really sour, yellow, softball sized fruit that has a thin ...

Construction Project number two is going well This is phase 2 of our building guest cabins project down here. It ...

Graffiti in Costa Rica - A Walk through San Jose One thing that I don't see often out in the ...

An Expat's Experience visiting home for Thanksgiving. I recently returned from a 18 day trip to my hometown in the ...

I of course am talking about Firefly, the one season television series from Sci-fi. Barry watched it last December when ...

Rio Destierro Barry has been wanting to photograph this river for 3 years now. He's gone and set up and ...

The talking parrot who wants his morning coffee. We have been finding all kinds of interesting life here on the farm ...

Starting a New Life at 40? What was I thinking? We stayed overnight at a friend’s house recently so that ...

This is Rio La Perla in San Bosco, Limon, Costa Rica. The river runs from Turrialba volcano down to where ...

Pineapples are a big business here in Costa Rica. The big companies use chemicals, to keep pests down, that are ...

Photo's of our lime trees and how we use them for juice, pie and after dinner drinks. We have 6 ...

Cacao trees, fruits and how we roast the beans to make nibs We have approximately 25 cacao trees here on ...

The Cacao blooms are attached to the trunk of the tree. It seems to me that this is a natural ...

We have about 25 cacao trees along our creeks here in Costa Rica. We have been playing around with the ...

There are two types of sloths, one man and one animal *Looking back at this video is hard. It has ...

I liked these two images together because of the contrasting messages. The eating utensils, although dirty, show some sense of ...

When we bought our farm here in Costa Rica there was an existing house on it that was occupied by ...

Remember the guy we were trying to give away? Well, he had a stroke this week. He is currently in ...

Residency in Costa Rica This Fourth of July was a very interesting day for us this year. Immigration scheduled our ...

Well the big news this morning is that I received word that my residency in Costa Rica was approved! This ...

 A cow and a truck, a love story - Updates on our move to Costa Rica I have so much ...

Building in Costa Rica. Our all wood cabin and our new gravel road. This is our new road and our ...

Processingy HDR differently. How it looks on the same tree. This is a tree on our farm in Costa Rica ...

Spooky Things in Costa Rica. Our first few months were a bit scary. Ewww, this video shows the scary side of ...

We came upon this prayer station on our return trip from Cartago, Costa Rica. It is on a well paved ...

St. James Church Ruins Cartago, Costa Rica, a historic relic. The Headless Priest Legend According to a popular legend, there ...

Swimming with birds & monkeys & Building the cabin in Costa Rica Enjoying Nature in Costa Rica while building the cabin, our video ...

Our New Apartment in Costa Rica and getting permission to cut a few trees. We moved to an apartment this ...

Our first days living on a Costa Rica farm. We were staying on a friends farm and learning everything including Spanish ...

Making Butter, Collecting Fruit and the Birds - Our new life in Costa Rica Begins We arrived on December 7th ...

Fying instead of Driving and Shipping our stuff to Costa Rica This is an update on our trip. We were ...

Driving to Costa Rica. Fitting it all in. Hi all. This video shows how we put an entire house full ...

Falling through the Floor Our last blog post included some video discussing how well our residency application/meeting went but not ...

Applying for Residency in Costa Rica In early August we went back to Costa Rica to apply for residency. We ...

End of July Building the Starplate Loveshack It is the end of July 2009 and this is our loveshack that ...

Updates and Transitions - Preparing for the move to Costa Rica All kinds of fun stuff going on since the ...

The steps to take for residency in Costa Rica *FYI - this information changes all the time. This our experience ...

Truck Security. How to prepare for a long trip. Batten down the Hatches This video shows the security system that we ...

How the Costa Rica Idea was Born - What made us choose Costa Rica as the place to live? It all ...