Costa Rica – A Cautionary Tale (Part 2)
I intended to publish Part 2 of A Cautionary Tale shortly after Part 1. But I was too busy planning for my family’s holiday visit (and subsequently too busy having fun with them) to sit down and write. We had…
Leaving Pittsburgh for Costa Rica
Now that we are more than a couple of months in, I’m finally able to discuss a memory I was actively trying to suppress. It is the nightmare that was leaving Pittsburgh. As we embarked on this journey, among the…
10 Reasons not to open a restaurant in Costa Rica (or anywhere else)
Aside from some of the general queries about Costa Rica, the question that I got asked the most after informing friends and colleagues that we were going to spend time here was whether I was going to open a restaurant…
Taking your kid to the doctor in Costa Rica
As I mentioned in a previous post, the quality of a country’s health care was a top consideration in determining where to take our family sabbatical. We had heard that Costa Rica ranked high along these lines, and confirmed this…
Renting a car in Costa Rica
Renting a car in any country with which you are not familiar can be a daunting task. Renting one in Costa Rica is especially complicated and expensive. Whether you need a car at all completely depends on your agenda. Can…
Why did we pick Costa Rica?
The question we’ve been asked the most so far is why we picked to spend this time in Costa Rica as opposed to another country. For people who are familiar with Costa Rica, the follow-up question is how we decided…
What do we hope to gain from this experience?
Several folks have mentioned to me that they fantasize about getting “off the grid” or wish they had our “wanderlust”. Yet neither one really applies to us. In order to pull this off, we took an extremely methodical approach that…
Why did we decide to do this?
Although I enjoy spending time in other countries, I appreciate the U.S. for countless reasons. On the public sector side, we have tremendous freedoms not enjoyed by citizens in many societies. By our standards, the U.S. government has been gridlocked and…
Introduction
I’m inherently a private person. That trait has been bolstered by the fact that I’m a lawyer. I think in terms of confidentiality. So disclosing really personal encounters to the world seems counterintuitive to me. In fact, I’m not even…
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