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Costa Rica Day 7 – Leaving the Osa Penninsula
We sleep better without the tropical storm. The mosquito bites are driving us crazy. We estimate there are 200 bites between the four of us. Trish is pretty cranky. She doesn’t usually get mosquito bites – they prefer me. But this time they have attacked her relentlessly. It looks like a disease. It’s our last … Continue reading
Costa Rica Day 3: Lily’s bad-ass adventure day
‘Daddy, it’s a sloth.’ Lily says and points. We ignore her. The dust from the ATV’s covers our bodies and fills our noses and ears. The group of six ATV is parked on the side of a dusty mountain road in Uvita, Costa Rica. We’re on one of our several breaks. ‘Sloth, Daddy, Look.’ She … Continue reading
Costa Rica Day 2: The magic beach and mystery cave
Our home for the next few days is Uvita a small town on the Pacific side only a few hundred miles from Panama. It’s not yet developed like the rest of the Pacific Coast. The waves aren’t the highest, the jungles aren’t the densest and the beaches aren’t the whitest. But it’s still amazingly beautiful … Continue reading
Costa Rica Trip – Creekmore family travel adventure itinerary
“The Rich Coast,” as Christopher Columbus supposedly called it, is a unique place that is often overlooked in the news and history books because so much went right. Tico’s did what very few nations have ever done. They avoided the bloodshed, repression and discatorships of the 18th and 19th centuries and were the first democracy … Continue reading
Peru Adventure Itinerary
. Off we go! The next 14 days will be spent in Peru, home of the most ancient civilizations in North America (Norte-Chico) as well as one of the most ruthless (the Inca). There are six recognized ‘birthplaces’ of civilization in the world, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus valley, China, Mesoamerica and The Andean region of … Continue reading
