Over my shoulder the sun is breaking up the clouds above the Arenal Volcano. It’s day nine of our (nearly) two-week trip to Costa Rica, It’s been a blast. Hummingbirds are so close you can hear their wings beating. The…
Final Cancer Week 2 Diagnosis and Treatment for Trish’s 3rd fight with breast cancer
Trish discovered the newest lump in early March as we were doing our presentation at SXSW in Austin Texas. Sadly, and ironically, that presentation was on crowdsourcing cancer support and drew heavily on our last experience with cancer in 2010.…
Costa Rica Day 10 – Rafting with Roberto Begnini
Arenal Volcano went dormant in 2010 after almost a century of activity. The La Fortuna resort and tourist area that built up around here was based in part on the attraction of daily smoke plumes and nightly lava flows that…
Costa Rica Day 9: Car problems at a hot springs and massive ziplines
Deb, the proprietor of our lodge, Leaves and Lizards is standing in the road in the dark. It’s 4:30 am. We are going hot air ballooning in Costa Rica – a CreekmoreWorld first! Or so we think. ‘It’s raining over…
Costa Rica Day 8: Pee-mergency! and Trish is punched by a monkey.
“Daddy, I really have to pee.” Emma says weepily and concerned. “And we’re trapped in our room.” Shit, I think, as I roll over. She’s right, we are trapped in our room at the budget hotel with the public toilet…