Tide Chart December 2015
Since we accidentally dropped the Tide Chart from the magazine this month, here it is . You can always find it every month on the Visitor Resources page.
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That’s Fishin’- December 2015
By Sarah Munro Imagine yourself receiving an email from a friend, and when you read it, it’s an invitation to fish the Bisbee’s tournaments in Cabo San Lucas Mexico with Team Tranquilo. You are immediately floored because this is the biggest paying tournament in the world and an invitation to
Read More¿Qué Pasa en Quepos? – December 2015
Beinvenidos/Welcome to Paradise for December 2015…we are rockin’ & rollin’ into High Season and so happy you have come to enjoy our beautiful area! Our rains are coming to an end but we are lush with greenery of every shade right next to the beautiful blue Pacific—you picked a great
Read MoreRetro Style: Outa Sight? Or Not Your Bag?
By Shelagh Duncan We all know that styles are cyclical and, of course, the world of interior design is not exempt. The best aesthetics will resurface again and again. For a while now mid-century-modern design has been gaining popularity and, perhaps for good reason. What is Mid-Century Modern? The shift
Read MoreWelcome to the Kids Saving The Rainforest Thanksgiving Update
KSTR has a lot to be thankful this year! We have been able to continue our mission of saving the rainforest and the wildlife in it a day at a time! We want to thank those of you who have supported us through the years, and to give people visiting
Read MoreMORE ABOUT SNAKEBITE
By Jack Ewing In the August issue of Quepolandia I published an article entitled, If You Are Unfortunate Enough to get Bitten by a Snake, Do it in Costa Rica. If you didn’t see it the article is available online at www.quepolandia.com/category/jack-ewing/.So much new information has come to my attention
Read MorePRESENTE, PASADO y FUTURO. Again.
By Os ¡Hola amigos! ¿How is everything going? Last article was brutal, I know. Too many boxes and endings. So today I am gonna present you the three tenses we learn last month in an easy format that you may like it. Check it out: (Remember that for future tense
Read MoreFiddlin’ Around – November 2015
By Nancy Buchan This last decade or so there has been an odd—at least I find it odd—urge to bring back the bands and performers who were so important to the soundtrack of our lives. I’m talkin’ tours with rock and roll dinosaurs—the hair bands that now have lots of
Read MoreSoak Up The Manuel Antonio High Vibes
By Amber Zuckswert What is it about Manuel Antonio that’s so special? Why do thousands of Costa Rican’s and tourists return again and again to this tiny tropical oasis every year? Perhaps it’s the monkeys swinging in the trees, or the warm rolling waves. Maybe it’s the countless adventures to
Read MoreLiving Through Contrasts
By Todd Pequeen Every year I return to the United States for a month or two to check my head. I’ve lived out of the U.S.A. for a little less than half my life now (although not all in C.R.). I don’t experience the States as a foreigner would, nor
Read MoreThat’s Fishin’- November 2015
By Sarah Munro Can you feel it? It’s coming. Not winter. The Fish. Actually, thanks to El Niño, the waters have stayed unseasonably warm and the bite has been good year round. Not the world=record-breaking kind of bite that we have during dry season, but there are plenty of fish
Read MoreA MESSAGE FROM THE PAWS PRESIDENT
The time has come for me to begin a new chapter in my ‘Book of Life’. In January I will be returning to the US permanently due to family needs. In 2011 PAWS Board members Valerie Phillips, Jan Blackwell, Pat Cheek, Holly Myers and Sandy Franz asked me, ‘Would you
Read MoreDiary of a Sloth Nanny
Hello, this is Jill (the sloth nanny), reporting from the sloth nursery at KSTR where The Sloth Institute is working in collaboration with KSTR to raise its baby-orphaned sloths. I’ve been volunteering here for about a month, working night and day to take care of the eleven sloths currently in
Read MoreA Goldfinch in Our Midst
By Jim Parisi Theo Decker is a thirteen-year old New York kid whose father left his mother and him a year earlier. It’s probably for the best, since his dad drank too much so he and his mom had to regularly navigate between his binges and his hangovers. They are
Read MoreThere’s More to Panama
By Rebecca Reiber [email protected] Need to make a residency run to Panama or just want a change of scenery? There’s much more to Panama than the towns that border Costa Rica, David and Bocas. Why not take a leisurely ride along the inter-american highway to the town of Antón and
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