Living in Tamarindo, Costa Rica

Stand Up Paddle Boarding (SUP) in Tamarindo

So this Christmas eve we decided to do some stand up padding boarding in Tamarindo with our friends Brian and Amy. To document it we used their kick ass HD Hero Camera to film the experience. Below is the video of our paddle out to Isle de Capitan that sits in the bay of Tamarindo. [...]

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Renewing a License in Costa Rica: A Practice in Futility

I got to experience the first ring of hell today. The Liberia DMV (MOPT), My day may have started off better if I had I followed my cardinal rule, “START EVERY DAY IN COSTA RICA WITH ZERO EXPECTATIONS ANYTHING WILL GO RIGHT” My license is up for renewal Jan 26, 2011. Seeing that I’ve let [...]

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Tamarindo Motorcycle Mechanic : Mauro the Italian

So after a year of living down here I finally was able to purchase my lifelong dream of owning a motorcycle. I got a killer deal on Yamaha 200 R. It’s simple trail bike that does the dirty work of getting me from point A to point B. Picture below: Any how I had to [...]

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Bill Johnson Surfboards in Costa Rica : The Lab Surf Company

This Christmas I wanted to get something special for Kristina. She had wanted a new surf board for quite some time. Specifically a Bill Johnson Stealth Quad. Yeah not the easiest surf board to come by down here. After asking around I was told that The Lab Surf Company right outside of Huacas could help [...]

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Costa Rica Nicaragua Border (Frontera)

Check out a couple videos of our excursion through the Costa Rica Nicragua border, frontera in Spanish. Costa Rica Nicaragua Border (Frontera) is a post from: Living in Tamarindo, Costa Rica Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Clip this to Evernote Share this on Facebook Share this on FriendFeed Email this [...]

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Villareal, Costa Rica Fiesta / Rodeo 12.18.10

The guy riding the bull gets absolutely thrashed. Around 45 seconds. Rumors are he didn’t survive. Villareal, Costa Rica Fiesta / Rodeo 12.18.10 is a post from: Living in Tamarindo, Costa Rica Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Clip this to Evernote Share this on Facebook Share this on FriendFeed Email [...]

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To Stress or Not To Stress

Budget wedding, budget weddings, weddings on a budget, Sam Hill Entertainment, 10 Spot, Cindy's Sweets, Ben's Flowers, Roman Grinev Photography, The Lodge at Blue Ridge Summit, Paper Divas, Banana Republic, Potomac Bead Company, Etsy,

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Safari Baby!

Posted by Kristina We woke up Saturday morning with 3 games of soccer per day, as well as 6 live soccer games under our belts and decided, “Maybe we should do something else.” So we did! Sunday morning we left for a town called Hluhluwe, and if you don’t know, the “hl” is pronounced like [...]

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Holland vs. Japan – World Cup 2010

Posted by Kristina After the US vs. Slovenia game ended around 6:30pm, we left for Ballito, because we had a 1:30pm game, Holland vs. Japan! We arrived in Ballito around 1am, this gave us about 7 hours of sleep, until we woke up and prepared for yet another game! We headed for Suncoast Casino in [...]

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US vs. Slovenia – World Cup 2010

Posted by Kristina If you’ve already read the blog titled, “Apartheid Museum”, then you know we’re staying in a cold house, but this morning it wasn’t a cold house, I believe, but don’t quote me, but I believe it was close to sub-zero temperatures. Ethel our host, who is a lovely woman, made an amazing [...]

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