It's my last night in Costa Rica, and thankfully I have wireless internet access again as I'm now at the Poseidon Hotel in Jaco. (How come the cheaper hotels always seem to have the best — and free — internet access, while the more luxurious ones either charge you extra for it or it doesn't […]

Hola from Costa Rica! I was hoping to blog every day but my plan hit a snag because my current hotel, La Mansion Inn in Manuel Antonio, doesn´t have wireless internet access in the rooms as promised, but at least I can check in by using the computer they make available to guests. Other than […]

My husband and I are big volcano fans. When we were in Hawaii for our honeymoon, we took a helicopter ride over Kilauea and hovered over the mouth watching lava spill out. When we were in Santorini, we took the boat over to Nea Kameni and walked around. So on Wednesday, our second day in […]

I’ve been in Costa Rica for less than 12 hours, but I can already say that I love it. My flight from Newark landed in San Jose a few minutes early, which is always a nice surprise. We had a driver from the hotel meet us at the airport to take us to Arenal, the […]