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Costa Rica – The Landing Page

For Christmas/New Years 2018-2019 we decided to venture forth to nearby Costa Rica with the aforementioned/written about stopover in (cue David Lee Roth) : PANAMA! (as noted here) Our time in Costa Rica, about two weeks, was primarily split between two areas, Quepos/Manuel Antonio, a national parquet and town on […]

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Costa Rican Christmas in Quepos

So Manuel Antonio is the big, famous national park you’ve likely heard of if looking into a trip to Costa Rica. Quepos is merely the adjoining town. It’s bigger and much closer than Google Maps would have you believe. We had a swell airBNB we stayed at with a kitchen, […]

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Panama City, Panama

Heeding the call of David Lee Roth & Van Halen, as a precursor to our Costa Rica trip we tacked on a couple nights in Casco Viejo (old city), Panama City – the Panamanian version, not the Spring Break Party Zone in Florida. We got in fairly late on Friday […]

By OBC, ago

Bowling In Paraguay

Originally appeared in my old blog May of 2015, have updated slightly with the move. I love bowling. I am a believer in Earl, the Patron Saint of Monster Truck Rallies, Trailer Parks, and, well, Bowling. I even permanently inscribed his name on the sleeve of my Vandals work shirt/bowling […]

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Craft Beer In Paraguay

This piece was originally written for my old blog and posted in July of 2015 Before coming to Paraguay I was forewarned by a good friend who had lived here and loves barley soda that it was a desolate wasteland. Paraguay, as most of South America, is dominated by watery […]

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San Andres – Stressed Out In Paradise

or Jimmy Buffet didn’t prepare me for this. (Skip the story, tips… pics here.) My life was flashing before my eyes. Or perhaps it was the Caribbean Sun reflecting off the chrome bumper of the truck I nearly crashed our “carto de golfo” into that was doing the flashing.  Forget […]

By OBC, ago