{"id":41,"date":"2008-07-08T21:09:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T02:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucepress.net\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-07-08T21:09:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T02:09:25","slug":"costa-rica-no-guns-no-war-no-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica: No Guns, No War, NO ARMY"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife and I spent the last week of July in Costa Rica<\/a>.\u00a0 We really enjoyed the diving, eco-touring and eating.\u00a0 It’s just a beautiful country and the people treated us spectacularly.\u00a0 Especially for that part of the world, they have a remarkably stable economy and political structure.\u00a0 With the growth of tourism, they have actually restored some of their rainforests and they have an aggressive restoration program.\u00a0 Very cool.<\/p>\n

We traveled with 9 others on a trip organized through our local dive shop.\u00a0 While we only dove on the first two of the 7 days, there was still the familiar bonding among divers.\u00a0 We had a great group to share our all too brief adventure with.\u00a0 It was a pretty fast paced tour of the country with 3 hotels, diving, rappelling, zip-lines, beach, ATVs and horses.\u00a0 Believe it, or not, there was even time for a little souvenir shopping.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, we were at a loss for a gift for my 16-year-old son.\u00a0 I thought I hit the mother lode while shopping in La Fortuna, near the Arenal Volcano, a shop full of figures of dragons, skulls and the like.\u00a0 Just the kind of stuff he likes.\u00a0 It took me a minute, but I soon noticed it was a head shop and they were all pipes.\u00a0 OK, not quite the message I wanted to bring home.<\/p>\n

I settled on the Costa Rica: No Guns, No War, NO ARMY T-Shirt.\u00a0 He’d like that.<\/p>\n

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.\u00a0 ~Mark Twain<\/font><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife and I spent the last week of July in Costa Rica.\u00a0 We really enjoyed the diving, eco-touring and eating.\u00a0 It’s just a beautiful country and the people treated us spectacularly.\u00a0 Especially for that part of the world, they … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[20,26,71],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VK4T-F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}