By Jack Ewing I once saw a menu from a fictitious restaurant called the Road Kill Cafe. “You Kill it; we grill it.” It offered selections such as flat cat, smear of deer, awesome opossum, chunk of skunk, and swirl squirrel. The daily special was called “The Mess. If you
Read MoreBy Sarah Munro This column gives you an ‘Inside Look’ at local businesses, and the people behind them. Community should be shared and celebrated and this is Quepolandia’s way of doing that. We hope you enjoy the following; this month we are featuring Luna Tours, and the people behind it.
Read MoreBienvenidos/Welcome to another month in Paradise– are we lucky or what and since you are here with us you are too…. Into everyday will come a little rain so just relax and enjoy – it keeps our air clean, cars dirty and makes everything so beautifully GREEN here in our
Read MoreBy Pat Cheek Bienvendios/Welcome to Paradise we are happy to have you here in our Beautiful part of Costa Rica…….and even happier that you are reading the Anniversary issue of Quepolandia! Thanks to Ana Lyons for Matapalo for getting it rolling way back in 1998…. we have made it our
Read MoreBy Sarah Munro Marina Pez Vela just hosted the IGFA Offshore World Championship. In case you don’t know what that means – its the biggest billfish tournament series in the world, and Quepos rocked it. And the fish most definitely ROCKED IT.
Read MoreBienvenidos/Welcome to our beautiful Paradise we are a glad you have come for a visit ….congratulations to all the graduates, newlyweds and those of you that picked Costa Rica for a perfect vacation…we doubt you will be disappointed……..we have it all……from the best tours to the best restaurants and you
Read MoreBienvenidos/Welcome to all you travelers….we are happy to have you visit and hope you have a great time. May is a perfect time to be here with plenty of sunshine and a little rain thrown in..a welcome sight for those of us that have endured the heat and humidity of
Read MoreBy Glen Bains If you’re having water trouble and can’t figure it out, here are a few extraordinary things you might check: Don’t assume tap water is good water for a pool. The typical hardness in tap water is as high as 1000 ppm — 700 ppm above the high
Read MoreBienvenidos/Welcome to our corner of Paradise…we are hopeful that we all survived another Semana Santa and are looking forward to a beautiful April..maybe we will begin to see a few rain showers as we are pretty dry and would welcome some green back into our lives…….if we are so lucky
Read MoreBy Jack Ewing In the rainforests of Central America the jaguar (Panthera onca) is at the pinnacle of the food chain, and the next largest feline, the puma (Puma concolor,) is one step below. There isn’t much that will confront a jaguar except the larger crocodiles that lurk in some
Read MoreBy Nancy Buchan Going to an outdoor music festival is just about as much fun as a person can stand. Whether you’re dancing to a circle of banjo players pickin’ some fine bluegrass in the Colorado mountains, or laying in a lounge chair sipping a drink with a little umbrella
Read MoreBienvenidos/Welcome to the most beautiful part of Costa Rica – or at least that’s how we feel about it – it is a beautiful country. We are happy to have you here for a visit and know you will have a great time…..we have just about everything that Costa Rica
Read MoreBy Jack Ewing In 1974 President Daniel Oduber began his four-year term as president of Costa Rica. Several months after the inauguration a small article appeared in the daily La Nación mentioning that the president and the minister of transport had stated that the planned coastal highway would be finished
Read MoreBy Todd Pequeen Is there a game more treacherous than life? Trying to balance our physical, emotional, and spiritual lives with cultural, religious, and family values can become overwhelming. Curses and blessings are often one in the same. Next we intermingle human factors such as desires and mistakes coupled with
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