Preamble: Tide pools have always been an obsession of mine. Streams, rivers, and really any water I can peer into – but tide pools in particular. It’s probably why I loved books like E.O. Wilson’s The Naturalist and Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing. Replete with descriptions of the shoreline, reading these passages would keep […]
Last week, I decided to take Spanish lessons to add a little more cultural immersion to our time in Nosara. The morning classes were about to start, my eye was twitching, and I absolutely did not want to go. I had to take a placement exam, and one of the available classes was in the […]
I turn 34 today! (Happy Easter!) I haven’t blogged as much as I’d hoped from Costa Rica, but this morning I snuck away to enjoy the breeze at Bodhi Tree before yoga. It’s one of my favorite corners of Nosara that Lindsay and I discovered last year. You can lounge on big sofa swings while […]
I am thrilled to publish my first guest post from Soo Mi: Nosara is a very special place – one of those places you don’t want to talk about too much so that it doesn’t blow up à la Tulum. So when I had the good fortune and opportunity to join Teddy and Catherine for […]
Before we left for Spain, I had made a plan to grab a drink and catch up with our friend Soo Mi. Soo Mi is married to one of Teddy’s best friends from college, and I assumed that we were going on a double date. Soo Mi suggested that we meet up at a cocktail […]
The funniest thing that happened to us this week was that when we arrived at the airport in Liberia, we ran into Teddy’s ex-girlfriend from college! I was waiting in the customs line and saw a woman approaching with her children. She looked vaguely familiar, but I wrote it off, maybe just because she had […]
The weekend after we got back from Spain, my friend Caroline visited. It was a fun bookend to our Spain trip because she and I met studying abroad in Madrid, and she has been very formative to my adult life. We planned a little baby shower for her with all of her NYC friends (she […]
After a hectic but wonderful two weeks in NYC, we are back on our adventures. We will not be home until July, and we do not even have return tickets yet. Hopefully we can still afford them with these oil prices! The past two weeks in NYC were awesome. We saw so many friends and […]
Last Friday morning, we headed back to Madrid with my parents, sister, Maddie, and Jasper for our final stretch in Spain. I was so determined for everything to go well that I got a little overstimulated trying to coordinate everyone and everything. At one point, in a fit of stress, I declared that I felt […]
One of the reasons I really wanted to spend the past month in Spain was that my parents already had loose plans to visit my Uncle Rafael in March. I figured if we were already there, it would be easy to convince my family to overlap, and, I really wanted to take Jasper to meet […]