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    Costa Rica a Land for all Seasons
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    Costa Rica a Land for all Seasons

    By Donald Bates-Brands

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    About this ebook

    After 30 years of marriage and suffering from the empty nest syndrome, my wife and I decided it was time to do something different. Not only were we interested in escaping winter to sandy beaches and tropical rain forests, we wanted to learn and experience a very different world from that which we had known while raising kids. We decided to go to Costa Rica.

    Our first trip to Costa Rica was in January of 2009. Not being familiar with the country, we took the advice of travel agents and planned our trip for the dry season. We had a really terrific time, but when planning a return trip we were wondering what it would be like during the rainy or green season. Both trips were very enjoyable and even educational.

    First we knew that it would be considerably cheaper during the rainy season. Doing a little bit of research divulged that the rains, while a heavy and daily event, were also reasonably predictable. Much of the day would still be sunny and we wondered if we might see the country in a different light during these rains.

    This e-Book is not a complete treatise on the entire country. Rather it is a detailed description of one couples experience on two different trips. Both trips were to the same general area of Quepos-Manuel Antonio. Our first trip also took in the Arenal - La Fortuna area.

    This is a small country with a lot to say to the rest of the world. They are moving forward and improving their infrastructure at a steady rate. Having abolished their military and not being burdened with this expense has greatly facilitated this progress. There is a lot of work still to do, but my wife and I noticed considerable forward progress between 2009 and 2012 in the areas of education, telecommunications and roads.

    The literacy rate is very high and as a group Costa Ricans, are a highly educated people. They are very proud of their country and aware of the world beyond Costa Rica. This pride and awareness tends to manifest itself in a very positive way toward the tourism industry. Having some command of Spanish, I was able to interact with these people and found their story very interesting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDonald Brands
    Release dateJan 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301141791
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    Costa Rica a Land for all Seasons
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    Donald Bates-Brands

    Boats and the sea have been my life. I think I was about eight years old when I got my first boat, a dilapidated canoe. A few years later I graduated to a healthier canoe with a lateen sailing rig. This was my first sailboat. I capsized it a lot, but had thoroughly caught the boating bug. I started racing sailboats by the age of 12. In 1968 I joined the Coast Guard at the age of 17 and was discharged in 1975 with the grade of First Class Quartermaster. My first tour in the Coast Guard was an oceanographic trip to Africa on the CGC Rockaway. It was a three month tour with most of the time at sea, but it was my first adventure out of the country and I loved it. My second oceanographic tour on this ship took me to the Barbados, Trinidad, the Bahamas, and Puerto Rico. Later in this hitch I was transferred to the CGC Lilac, a triple expansion steam buoy tender, a fugitive from museums built in the early Thirty’s. I believe it is now being refurbished in NY City for display in the near future. I returned to the CGC Rockaway to finish my first hitch and made a Cadet cruise to England. Discharged from the Coast Guard on Oct 22, 1971, I returned to England for a 3 month tour by bicycle. In January of 1972 I rejoined the CG and reported aboard the buoy tender CGC Firebush at Governors Island NY. In the summer of 1972, I took leave from the CGC Firebush and enjoyed a two week cruise along the south coast of England with a British friend on his 27’ Trident class sloop. This was a bilge keel rig that proved to be fairly important in an area with 30 foot tides. Many times at low tide we were aground, but vertical resting on the two keels. After returning stateside to the CGC Firebush, the wanderlust hit me again and I requested and received a transfer to the CGC Gallatin which was making a cadet cruise through Europe. On this trip I got to Gibraltar, Portugal, Germany, Denmark and England. In 1974 I bought the Chesapeake Skipjack "Pale Moon" and sailed it from Maryland's Eastern Shore to NY for Opsail '76. Throughout this period I was involved in one design racing. Since my discharge from the Coast Guard in January of 1975, I have been working on large seagoing tugboats and currently hold a 1600 ton Ocean Master's License as well as Unlimited Third Mate and an Unlimited Radar Observer endorsement. I have written extensively on marine safety for Offshore Magazine and other publications. I have now retired from going to see and am pursuing my writing full time. On my free time, I enjoy cruising with my wife on our Catalina 22 on Long Island NY's Great South Bay.

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