Six years ago I was tired, overworked and fed up with my life… so I left everything behind in search of a more fulfilling experience. This journey brought me to a tiny treehouse in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle where I discovered a freer, healthier, happier, more creative life.
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Join the De la Pura Vida newsletter and receive The Ultimate Costa Rica Moving Checklist for free! It’s 10 pages of checkable action items, tons of advice including over a full page on moving with pets, and loaded with links to valuable resources. If you are thinking about moving to Costa Rica, you need this!
Shielding my eyes from the piercing rain, I looked up to discover the source of the crash – a towering pine tree silhouetted black by the purple urban night sky. Its branches pierced vertical. Its trunk lay horizontal, disappearing into my roof and reappearing out the other end of my house.
A glimpse into the offerings of the popular beaches and the hidden gems of Northern Guanacaste, Costa Rica – some of the finest beaches in the world!
“Badass?” questioned the Costa Rican airport official, eyebrow raised, as he stopped my forward progress through security. “Yes,” I replied with a sly smile.
I put my dog to sleep then moved to a condemned house on the beach in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica and immediately contracted Dengue Fever…again.
Tiger tells us about her 7 years in Costa Rica, her 4 husbands, and her 20 years in Japan and traveling the world as a dancer, Alaska pipeline welder, personal trainer, translator, and home health nurse.
A lucid dream, a tough decision, the saddest day I’ve ever had, and the hardest thing I’ve ever written. I had to put my dog, Mocha, to sleep.
19 stunning photos of Uvita, Costa Rica + travel tips, things to do, places to eat, places to stay. Uvita is a sparsely populated tropical paradise where mountain meets beach and Home of the Annual Whale and Dolphin Festival.
With just one month to sell my things and move to the US, I move to the beach in Costa Rica where I get in an accident that contributes to the illness that I still don’t know I have.
I follow a creepy ad on Craigslist and find a home in the unlikeliest of places, in a tiny isolated mountain town in Costa Rica.