HeyJaredWhat an Adventure!
Laughs, legends, and lessons from our crazy adventure of buying a hotel in Costa Rica, living in the jungle…and other unlikely adventures.
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A Survivor’s Account: What’s That Lurking in the Jungle? (opens the original)
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Since my last post was about the unusual animals we had living around us at our Costa Rican hotel, I thought this was a good time for another guest story. One in which a guest encountered an unusual animal and survived!Subscribe nowHere’s how it played out.One of my jobs for the hotel (beside owning!) was answering the hotel’s 1-800 reservation number. The ho
Not Lions and Tigers and Bears, but Oh My! (opens the original)
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Besides the sloths, monkeys and birds that lived around our Costa Rican hotel, there were plenty of other unusual animals too.And by unusual, I mean things that a suburban dweller from the United States doesn’t see in their backyard. I didn’t even know these animals existed before I lived in Costa Rica, let alo
The German, Her Husband and Their Daughter: You Can’t Control How Others Act (opens the original)
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During the slow reopening from the Covid hotel closure, in 2021, Mark and I made some more improvements to the original villas at our Costa Rican hotel.One improvement was to add air conditioning to one of the bedrooms in our 2-bedroom villa. It might sound strange that the bedroom didn’t have A/C, however, in Costa Rica it was common that houses/villas/hotel rooms were open air. This created an amazing multi-sensory experience most guests loved. They could see, smell and hear the forest around
The Book that Changed My Perspective (opens the original)
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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne DyerSometimes something comes your way when you need it.I didn’t know that thing for me would be a book.Subscribe nowFor my yoga teacher training in Costa Rica, there were some required readings and some recommended ones.One book that was recommended was The Po
The Rest of the Story about the Iranian doctors. (opens the original)
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Mark wrote this follow-up to the first hotel guest story that we posted! Enjoy! As usual, there’s more to every story. My previous story about the two Iranian doctors has a second chapter.Here’s the rest of the story.Fool in the RainYou might recall that Farhad and Rupert had planned a 4-night stay, but because Farhad had forgotten to bring his passport to the airport, they missed their flight from Los Angeles and arrived at our hotel a day late. Now they were down to just 3 nights with us.And y
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