*Throwback edition
Let’s flashback to 2016. I’d been searching for a career for a year. I’d graduated with my Masters one year prior. By that point I’d gotten so used to rejection in all its forms. One day I thought, fug this rat race, I’m getting the hell out this country. Entonces, vamanos a Costa Rica!
Heredia, Costa Rica
I decided to get the hell out of the States and move to paradise. When I think back on Costa Rica there really are few drawbacks. I mean literally you’re living in fuckin paradise. Paradise in all its forms. The whole country is surrounded by nature. It’s thick with nature.
If you’re into volcanoes, they got that. There are several volcanoes to explore and even active ones. I’m sure some tourist was bold enough to go beyond the barrier. Wonder how that worked out for em?
Of course CR got beaches. CR has ruined me in that sense. I go to beaches here but I never have high expectations. Like, ok, the beach is cute but it ain’t CR though.
Obviously, looking back on places we have a tendency to exaggerate. We exaggerate the good, the bad, and the ugly. I’ll admit, CR doesn’t have the best food and sometimes traffic can be bad. But people really follow the Purda Vida lifestyle. The amount of stress one experiences on a daily is basically non existent.
Oh yea, and the coffee!!! I didn’t know what real coffee was until I moved to CR.
Costa Rica is very accessible as a traveler. It is very expensive so unless you a baller, travel by bus is the way. The buses are shit compared to the buses in South East Asia, that’s for sure. But one could travel the whole country in literally a few days. In my 1.5 years there I traveled extensively. Even to the depth of Bahia Drake where I saw a real Tapir.
It took multiple buses and boats to get there but it’s worth it.
And the sunsets. The got damn sunsets in CR are to live for.
Costa Rica is one of them countries where I get super hype when people mention. I know the world is huge and my life has led me to many experiences but the 1.5 years I spent in this beautiful country have helped mold me.
Maybe life will call me back there and this will be my humble abode in the mountains. Who knows?!
Les Go... 