My all time favorite place to visit and visit regularly is Costa Rica. I fell in love with Costa Rica when I read the “Happier than a Billionaire” series, by Nadine Pisani. Nadine was able to tell the story of her and her husband’s adventure when they finally had enough of the rat race of the United States. There was no sugar coating of the Costa Rican life. They openly shared their trials and tribulations along with the joys of the “pure life”. Suicide showers, Costa Rican land mines, and water crossings opened my eyes to life in the tropics. That lead me to more and more research and an all out obsession with retiring and moving to Costa Rica. We hadn’t even traveled there and I was telling my husband, friends, and family that we were going to retire early, sell everything, and move there. My husband thought I had completely lost my mind.
Then we went there. My husband, who had never even been outside the United States, fell in love with Costa Rica just like I did. It met all of my dreams! The second trip we actually went and stayed at Nadine’s house as she has a bed and breakfast kind of set up. She and her husband Rob are quite entertaining. Now my husband tells people that we will be moving to Costa Rica at some point in the future. His saying, “there’s monkeys man, MONKEYS.” You will find over the series of my blog that my husband is easily entertained. Who knew that all I had to do was find a jungle with some primates?
We love to travel and have many areas on our bucket list but when we have a spare week, we will take a quick trip to Costa Rica. Over time, we have made some friends down there that I’m sure will make the transition easier when the time comes.