a pura vida year in costa rica

Thursday, June 12, 2025: I’ve started a new blog about our year living abroad in Costa Rica. If you’d like to follow me there, check it out here:

a pura vida year in costa rica

Some of my first posts follow:

1.  living in costa rica: a year of adventure and family
2. our home on Lake Arenal for the first six months (June 1 –  November 30, 2025)
3. Costa Rica arrival: first impressions and travel challenges
4. setting up our household in Costa Rica & a few local explorations {week 1/52}

I haven’t started a new blog in a long time, so please be patient as I work out the kinks on the site! I’ll still be posting my monthly cocktail hours on this blog, as well as my year-end recaps. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll post our trips to Panama, Guatemala and Belize on this blog or the new one.

Our house on Lake Arenal

the cove & boat dock

Mike in Tronadora

church in Tronadora

mural in Tronadora

me on our balcony

Mike at Lake Arenal Brewery

Lake Arenal Brewery

pretty yellow church in Aguacate

me at Beer Garden Tinajas

Beer Garden Tinajas

Beer Garden Tinajas

rainbow seen over Lake Arenal from Nuevo Arenal

I hope you’ll come along on Mike’s and my first “living abroad experience” together. (I lived and worked abroad on my own in South Korea, Oman, China and Japan).