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A family travel adventure blog. Now featuring CANCERPALOOZA! |
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 and it’s not so crowded even on Holy/ Easter Week, which is peak season.
Tropical AdventureEmma and Lily beg for more quarters for the video game on our five hour layover in the newer international terminal of JFK, New York. The Empire State building and the skyline of Manhattan is visible over the airport terminal and jets. In between us and them is the mighty Brooklyn and it’s 2.5 million inhabitants. That’s half the population of this trip’s destination: Costa Rica!
Lily is getting a silly ride on the back of my roller luggage and laughing uncontrollably. “I love when the Creekmores travel!”, she yells just before falling off again with hysterical laughter.
Friday March 24, 1994, ManhattanIt was raining on my birthday. Some friends told me to come with them for casual drinks after work. By 7pm I was wasted – as usual. We stopped at a Starbucks, one of the first in NYC, and I stole a pound of coffee beans.
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 in Latin and South america. Costa Rica was one of the first to recognize the economic value of environmentally sustainable tourism and they built a middle class without heavy industrialization and it’s negative consequences.
Yes, there are still poor in Costa Rica (one in five) and there are places in the world that are now surpassing Costa Rican environmental preservation. But this place deserves credit for being one of most well managed countries in the history of the Earth.
Last fall (2011) Trish put in an application to SXSW, the premiere interactive media conference, and they selected us to present a session entitled ‘Crowdsourcing Cancer Support: A Love Story.’ Well, we just came back, and it was a fantastic experience. There is a lot social media and crowd-sourcing techniques can do for cancer support – particularly with younger generations. More on that later…
