by josh | Sep 21, 2015 | Around Montezuma, Uncategorized
There is a brand new bus terminal, or terminal nuevo that offers a direct bus service from San Jose to Montezuma twice daily! The new terminal is called the 7-10 terminal, terminal siete diez. This is a quite modern 3+ story mall, which has lots of...
by Pauline Hammer | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
This is the last blog post I’ll be writing on site here in Montezuma for the next few months. Josh & I are flying back up to my home state of Montana in a week to take some time off and finish putting together all the details for our September 28 wedding!...
by Pauline Hammer | Aug 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
A lot of the pictures I take here at the Mariposario don’t make it onto the blog but do get posted on our facebook. For those who check both I try not to double up on pictures and info too much but today’s series of facebook posts seemed too good...
by Pauline Hammer | Jul 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
As I said in my last post, living here I have managed to amass over 6,00o pictures in my butterfly picture file alone. Of course, I reached a critical mass somewhere in there and realized I was going to have to break those pictures down into some smaller files. I knew...
by Pauline Hammer | Jun 13, 2014 | Costa Rican Animals, Costa Rican Insects, Life in Costa Rica, Uncategorized
Living here is addicting. This sense that under any given leaf, in any tree, any tide pool, there probably is some new creature you’ve never seen before, that is intoxicating to me. Josh, my fiance, has been living here the better part of the last...
by ryan | Nov 8, 2011 | Costa Rican Animals, Costa Rican Insects, Life in Costa Rica, Uncategorized
I have to constantly pinch myself while living here in Costa Rica. Am I really here? Is this really happening? It is, and I love it. Everything is surreal and you are constantly in perpetual motion. As soon as one project finishes the next appears. It keeps you on...