PLAYA POTRERO, Guanacaste — Minutes after meeting Jeff Herrman and Justin McCarter, I was on a sailboat drinking a beer and watching flying fish jump out of…
NOSARA, Guanacaste – When I drove into Nosara and saw the first sign for a yoga institute, I took a deep breath and braced myself for what I thought…
NOSARA, Guanacaste – A small howler monkey was climbing on Vicki Coan's head, ruffling up her once-straight dirty blonde hair when I tried to take a picture of…
LLANOS DE CORTÉS, Guanacaste — I was relaxing on a hammock high above a natural pool at the Llanos de Cortés waterfall when a white-faced monkey almost slid off…
RINCÓN DE LA VIEJA, Guanacaste — On our walk to the top of the 450-meter waterslide at Buena Vista Lodge, my guide showed me a place where…
LIBERIA, Guanacaste — When I mentioned that I was taking Southwest Airline’s inaugural flight from Baltimore to Liberia, Costa Rica, someone asked if I was worried about…
TAMARINDO, Guanacaste — When a 7-year-old girl was drowning off the coast of Tamarindo recently, Sergio Pérez didn't have long to cover the half-mile stretch from the lifeguard stand on the…
[caption id="attachment_990" align="alignnone" width="700"] Photo by Andrés Madrigal / The Tico Times[/caption] Both of these photographs are of Playa Conchal, in Guanacaste. The above photo was…
