Tag Archives: Costa Rica

Hiding in plain sight

Posted on March 12, 2020 by simpletravelourway

The coolest activity to do – and not for the faint of heart – is a night tour with the Bug Lady in Drake Bay, Costa Rica with the sole purpose of seeing and learning about things that go creeping … Continue reading →

Posted in Costa Rica | Tagged Costa Rica, La Paloma Lodge, leafcutter ants, scarlet macaw, tailess whip scorpion, travel, travel with children, travel with grandchildren | 6 Comments

The unexpected joy of young travel companions

Posted on February 13, 2020 by simpletravelourway

We usually travel alone. Sometimes a friend or two will join us, but we rarely have child companions. That may be due to a lack of confidence on our parts. Would we be their best travel companions? Anticipating a trip … Continue reading →

Posted in Costa Rica | Tagged Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, La Paloma Lodge, travel, travel with children, travel with grandchildren | 1 Comment

We don’t know what we don’t know

Posted on January 30, 2020 by simpletravelourway

No matter how we tried to juggle our travel schedule there was a gap. A 5-day stay at La Paloma Lodge in Drake Bay, Costa Rica included 2 excursions. One was a snorkeling trip in the open ocean that we … Continue reading →

Posted in Costa Rica | Tagged bottlenose dolphins, capuchin monkeys, Costa Rica, La Paloma Lodge, mangrove trees, osa peninsula, potoo, red mangrove, travel, travel with grandchildren | 3 Comments

Where we saw 3 monkey species, a garlic tree, and swam in a waterfall

Posted on January 20, 2020 by simpletravelourway

We traveled to many of the U.S. National Parks for their magnificent scenery. If we think all national parks are alike, consider Corcovado National Park, located on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, and compare it to Everglades National Park in … Continue reading →

Posted in Costa Rica | Tagged agouti, biodiversity, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, garlic tree, La Paloma Lodge, osa peninsula, travel, travel with grandchildren | 3 Comments

The trip of a lifetime (depending on who you ask)

Posted on January 8, 2020 by simpletravelourway

We promised to take our grandchildren on a memorable trip with us. Their parents were not invited. We wanted this to be a trip (we hoped) they’d remember the rest of their lives. We gave the trips with our grandchildren … Continue reading →

Posted in Costa Rica | Tagged Bug Lady Tour, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, La Paloma Lodge, Netherlands, osa peninsula, travel, travel with grandchildren | 7 Comments

Our Best of the Best #2: favorite places to stay and cities for good food

Posted on December 3, 2016 by simpletravelourway

Deciding what has been our best in almost every category involved a lot of discussion with a few notable exceptions: one was “favorite places to stay” and another “cities for good food”. We knew exactly what those would be, no … Continue reading →

Posted in Best of Travel | Tagged best places to stay, best restaurants, Costa Rica, Edo Sushi Bar, food, Hoi An, La Mar, La Paloma Lodge, Lemala Tented Lodge, Lima, Maido, Maramboi Tented Lodge, Tanzania, travel | 4 Comments

Pause…take a break…and start up again

Posted on December 10, 2014 by simpletravelourway

Who wants a vacation to end? We never felt our one-week vacations from years past were long enough. We tried two weeks, then moved to three. When three weeks was not enough, we planned our just-finished (wildly extravagant in time) … Continue reading →

Posted in Around-the World - 2013-14 | Tagged around the world travel, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Iceland, Italy, travel, Turkey, vacation | 6 Comments

Finding birds

Posted on November 20, 2013 by simpletravelourway

Where are the birds we wondered? We saw very few bird species in Japan, China, and Vietnam. Of those few, we could identify only 6 species that were new to us. Pathetic! We had looked for birds but not in … Continue reading →

Posted in Around-the World - 2013-14, Thailand | Tagged Arizona, around the world, birds, Chiang Mai, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, green bee-catcher, Huay Tueng Tao, La Paloma Lodge. Osa Peninsula, Los Gatos, snowy owl, Thailand, travel | 2 Comments