Beaches

OK, so up until Wednesday I haven’t really gotten out of Liberia. Liberia is relatively small, only about 70,000 people, and actually haven’t seen too much more than the central, commercial part either. But Wednesday I went with a couple of our distributors along their delivery route and it was absolutely incredible to see more of the country.

I have heard things about how beautiful Costa Rica is and it looked impressive in all the pictures on the internet, but there is no comparison when you see it in person. It pretty much is a tropical paradise. There are hills and cliffs that lead straight down to pristine beaches and sparkling aqua colored water.

I went along in the first place because I had to interview a couple tourists who had come to Costa Rica to surf. Yeah, I know. Not a bad first assignment, I have to go to the beach and ask people about surfing. Anyway, I talked with a cool guy from Australia who had basically surfed his way down the coast from Mexico and now was in Costa Rica but the best part was driving around and taking in the scenery.

Our newspaper is in English and is marketed to almost exclusively to tourists and ex-patriots. We carry a lot of articles from Reuters and the New York Times but our advertisements are for real estate and development and we distribute to a lot of hotels and other tourist spots. So today, on the normal delivery route, I saw some of the most luxurious hotels and resorts I could imagine. They were the most resplendent places that simultaneously elicited intense repulsion while at the same time, I wanted nothing more than to kick back and bask in the opulence of the resort.

Enjoy the pictures!