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Tiki’s Seaside Grill Mojito (from Brasilito, Costa Rica)

  • 1.5 oz simple syrup
  • 1.5 oz fresh squeezed lime juice
  • 1.5 oz rum (they use Bacardi Carta Oro from Cuba)
  • Fresh mint leaves
  • Sugar cane stick for garnish

Muddle handful of mint and 3 ice cubes and 1.5 oz sugar water.  Add lime and rum, and shake.  Top off with a splash of soda and garnish with sugar cane.

 

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Pura Vida

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.  Continue reading “Pura Vida”