Category / Art & Design / Costa Rica
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Behind the Design: Pacific Bottom Dwellers
I’ve always had a deep fascination and connection with the sea. Countless hours of my childhood were spent in the ocean learning to surf in San Clemente, CA, or walking down the sandy beaches. After the years passed my love for the sea drove me in new directions. Now many years later, I have found…
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Community Sign Painting Event in Playa Junquillal
The pavement stops before you arrive to the small beach towns in the area where we are currently living, and bumpy dirt roads wind their way to the coast. Most people who are from here or live here full-time are used to dogs lounging in the street, monkeys occasionally scurrying to a tree on the…
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Raising and Hatching Bantam Chickens
We have many goals to become more self-sustainable by producing instead of consuming. One way to do that is have a flock of yard birds that are producing daily eggs. Bantam chickens are smaller versions of standard chickens, and come in a variety of breeds – just miniature! They are about 1/5 to 1/4 the…
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Minimalism : In Design + Lifestyle
If we had to choose the most powerful principal to live by both in our lifestyle and design style, we would have to say Minimalism. In a world crowded with thoughts, sales, news, promos, (exasperated gasp…) opinions, photos, advice and an overabundance of unnecessary material goods – it is easy to drown in the noise, and lose…
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Rio Celeste : A Photo Blog
A couple weeks ago we took a road trip to Rio Celeste, the river and waterfall known for its surreal blue color. Rio Celeste is not far from Liberia airport, heading towards Arenal Volcano, in the Tenorio National Park. Most of the drive is on paved roads except for the last stretch after reaching the park…
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Super Healthy Tropical Smoothies: Part I
One of the best things about living in the tropics is the abundance of fresh, local fruit. I had never tried many of the local tropical fruit before moving here, and now I can’t imagine life without these sweet, exotic and best of all – HEALTHY! – treats. Costa Rica is a hot spot for…
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Top 5 Reasons Central America is your Post-Election Escape Spot
If you live in the U.S and are as worried about this next election as we are, you’ve probably already started to consider where to move in 2017. With serious issues like health care, education, women’s rights and religious freedoms at stake, this election could really effect life as you know it in the good…
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Travels in the Caribbean
The Nomad team was fortunate enough to take a little road trip to the Caribbean side of Costa Rica recently to explore this coast. Although this wasn’t our first time here, we were shocked by the change in climate, wildlife, culture, and flavor. Our home base here in the Guanacaste is a predictable sunny, dry…
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Thousands of Sea Turtles
One morning this past September, word traveled up the coast that the rare and amazing large scale arrival, or “arriabada” in Spanish, of Olive Ridley turtles was beginning at Playa Ostional. This beach is one of only a handful in the world where this mass number of sea turtles arrives and makes the labored journey…
