Gabe McCarthy

Costa Rica 101: What's your favorite animal?

The Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary helped me reassess this question, one many of us haven't been asked since grade school. Lying just north of Cahuita, Costa Rica, the Sloth Sanctuary has provided a home for dozens upon dozens of...

Vale la pena on Costa Rica's Caribbean shore, part two

Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) is a convenient one to exit. Off the plane, through the corridors, following immigration signs and arrows, and into a large room with enlarged rainforest prints on the walls and the serpentine line to the...

Vale la pena on Costa Rica's Caribbean shore, part one

Air travel is hectic and expensive, often crowded and seems to rarely turn out exactly as planned. The trip from the airport and capital city of San Jose to the Caribe side of Costa Rica makes the airborne leg of...

Good-for-something Italians, part four

Still within sight of where we paid the cab driver and gunned it through a light, we were stopped. Three motorcycles lay strewn across the two-lane highway blocking one lane and the other was taken by an ambulance. Not...

Good-for-something Italians, part three

As the Italians (that should be singular, only one could speak any English) and I were discussing when we should leave, we got our clue that the station would be closed for the day- The clerk behind us at the...

Good-for-something Italians, part two

I hadn't until that day at the bus station witnessed such a storm. It was uncanny, the utter quantity of water. Even though many were sheltered from the rain, those out in the covered walkway were instantly standing in...

Good-for-something Italians, part one

I met Roberto and Vincendio at the Caribe bus terminal in San Jose, Costa Rica at about noon. I had just arrived to find roughly one hundred observably impatient would be travelers informally lined up, more accurately milling around, near...

Go ahead airlines, make my day!

As my departure date looms, I find myself preparing for the full contact clash of priorities that is airline travel. Typically, my travel priorities list is topped with ideals like timeliness, convenience, efficiency and general principals of comfort...

Escape: -28.7 degrees

Contrary to what you may have deduced from the title, the subject of this article is not summering in Antarctica. The subject is like Mr. Tyler, passing third floor hardware, children's ware and ladies lingerie, and going...

That's it. I quit. I'm moving to Costa Rica.

I had so much fun saying it, I decided to do it. There's really very little that feels as good as knowing that you're almost done. It's like the last week...

Costa Rica 101: What's your favorite animal?

Vale la pena on Costa Rica's Caribbean shore, part two

Vale la pena on Costa Rica's Caribbean shore, part one

Good-for-something Italians, part four

Good-for-something Italians, part three

Good-for-something Italians, part two

Good-for-something Italians, part one

Go ahead airlines, make my day!

Escape: -28.7 degrees

That's it. I quit. I'm moving to Costa Rica.

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