stories

#JungleProblems: Living in the Costa Rican Jungle

#JungleProblems: What I Have Learned About Living in the Jungle Living in the jungle sounds really exotic and I think people romanticize the idea as some epic adventure. Well I have news for you, it is simply just another place to live, another place to adapt to certain ways of life, and learn certain lessons […]

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thoughts

Light My Way: What Getting Up At Sunrise is Teaching Me

The Morning Light The sun rises and sets at 6:00 this close to the equator. It resets your biological clock to a very primitive mode and your body absorbs the energy of the sun’s time as it’s own.  Waking up at 5:00am feels natural, like my body had been craving this organic experience of living […]

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stories

Where the Jungle Kisses the Sea

The Journey My journey to the Penisula de Osa began in cold and rainy Seattle. Three flights, 8 hours of layovers, 2 hours of sleep, 1 amazingly bumpy jeep ride, and less than 24 hours later I have landed myself in a place that turned out to be better than expected. I arrived in San […]

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