Isn’t vacation grand? You’re away from work, relaxing, exploring and feasting in a destination that’s exciting simply because it’s not your home. But sometimes while enjoying an escape, you get a glimpse of real life in that place. A glimpse without the façade put on for tourists. Sometimes it’s gritty and sometimes unpleasant. In Costa Rica,…
It’s pretty obvious by now that one of my favorite things about traveling is trying different foods at the destinations. So you can imagine my dismay when I was researching Costa Rica and travel guide after travel guide listed the country’s food as nothing more than “meh.” Boy, am I glad I didn’t listen to…
OK, maybe the title shouldn’t really say getting crabs, but rather chasing crabs. Still, you get the picture. I’ve loved crabs ever since I went on a family vacation to South Carolina as a teenager and one of the local residents taught me how to grab a crab on its bum without getting pinched. That piqued my…
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