Costa Rica – Alex In Wanderland https://www.alexinwanderland.com Sat, 03 Mar 2018 03:03:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Central America Tops and Flops https://www.alexinwanderland.com/central-america-tops-flops/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=central-america-tops-flops https://www.alexinwanderland.com/central-america-tops-flops/#comments Fri, 27 May 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35986 This time last year, I was flying back to the USA after four months spent in one of my favorite pockets of planet earth: Central America. Over the course of five different trips, I’ve now been lucky enough to visit each of the seven countries making up this sub-continent — some of them multiple times! A […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/central-america-tops-flops/feed/ 73 My Travel and Blogaversary: Year Three https://www.alexinwanderland.com/blogaversary-year-three/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blogaversary-year-three https://www.alexinwanderland.com/blogaversary-year-three/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=24123 The Great Escape Year Three
Yesterday was a significant day over here at Wanderland HQ — my third travel-and-blogaversary. This post is a toast to three years of wanderlust, three years of location independent employment, and three years of pouring my heart out here on Alex in Wanderland. This year I learned more about myself, my travel style and my professional […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/blogaversary-year-three/feed/ 163 Alex In Wanderland The Great Escape Month 33 Roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-33-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-escape-month-33-roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-33-roundup/#comments Thu, 29 May 2014 20:55:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=24049 This month marked the end of my Latin America adventures and the start of an extended period back to the US, a bittersweet page turn to a next chapter in my travels. After some emotionally tumultuous times in South America I felt like I had finally gotten my groove back, Stella-style, when we hit Panama — […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-33-roundup/feed/ 40 One Week of La Pura Vida https://www.alexinwanderland.com/one-week-la-pura-vida/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-week-la-pura-vida https://www.alexinwanderland.com/one-week-la-pura-vida/#comments Fri, 02 May 2014 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=22428 Bike Riding in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Crossing the border into Costa Rica, it finally hit me. There were nineteen weeks of travel behind me, and only one ahead. This was the end of my Latin American adventures. I’d chosen to fly out of San Jose for several reasons. First, because there were flight to New Orleans for only 15,000 frequent flyer miles […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/one-week-la-pura-vida/feed/ 52 Alex In Wanderland The Problem with Puerto Viejo https://www.alexinwanderland.com/problem-puerto-viejo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=problem-puerto-viejo https://www.alexinwanderland.com/problem-puerto-viejo/#comments Thu, 01 May 2014 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=24977 “Well, we’ve got three months for Central America which should be okay as we’re only spending a week in Costa Rica.” “We’re skipping Costa Rica entirely.” “You’re going to Costa Rica?! I guess you really hate your money.” From Peru to Panama we met backpackers warning us against the budget-wrecking horrors of Costa Rica. Had we […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/problem-puerto-viejo/feed/ 46 Horseback Riding the Right Way in Costa Rica https://www.alexinwanderland.com/puerto-viejo-horseback-riding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=puerto-viejo-horseback-riding https://www.alexinwanderland.com/puerto-viejo-horseback-riding/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=24043 Playa Chiquita Riding Adventures
“At one point, those doctors nearly declared me dead.” The man riding next to me was very much alive, and explaining how a bad accident led him to trade in riding Harleys in America for riding horses in Costa Rica. It was just one of many fantastic tales we’d hear throughout the day. As a certified […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/puerto-viejo-horseback-riding/feed/ 80 Alex In Wanderland Photo of the Week 141 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-week-141/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-week-141 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-week-141/#comments Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:37:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=20376 Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
This post is a significant one — the final Photo of the Week from my twenty weeks of Latin American adventures. Today, Anders and I part ways and tomorrow I’ll be flying back to the US. It’s incredibly bittersweet — I’m paralyzed at the thought of saying goodbye to my copilot for the past three months, […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-week-141/feed/ 46 Alex In Wanderland My First Eleven Foreign Countries https://www.alexinwanderland.com/my-top-ten-foreign-countries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-top-ten-foreign-countries https://www.alexinwanderland.com/my-top-ten-foreign-countries/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:55:57 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=2924 Bloggers love lists. They are easy and fun to write, they do well in search engines, and they get good responses.  Recently, flipping through my passport in anticipation of my upcoming trip to Spain, I realized I had surpassed my 10th foreign country without even acknowledging the milestone! I was already at eleven. Maybe not such […]
 
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