Today after school we decided to explore Rio Claro. We started at the ocean. The river spreads out into a wide, gravel and sand covered...

What do a loaf of bread, a coconut and pure Costa Rican cacao have in common? Today, we randomly found each of them on the road - or...

After a great lunch at a little shack of a taco place in "town" (less than twenty small buildings) called Tica Mex, we walked across the...

We could say a lot about our day, but let's start with the hill. We ventured on a walk to see the market, the beach, the supermarket, and...

We woke up in Uvita to heavy rain, but that didn’t stop the girls from having fun swimming in the pool. We checked out of our hotel and...

We started our day with breakfast in the courtyard restaurant at our hotel, had our rental SUV dropped off by the very personable "Luis"...

We are finally on our way!  After months of prep, weeks of execution and a TON of help and kindness from family and friends, bags are...

Packing, Packing, Packing! How much stuff does it take for a family of four to travel to multiple countries in one big trip? A lot!