Life comes alive at night in the cloudforests of Monteverde, Costa Rica. Adam and I donned our headlamps, grabbed our jackets and set out one night with a guide to see what we could find. Our first stop was at the home of the tarantula pictured on this blog. When we arrived at it's house, it was hiding so our guide showed us a lil trick to make him come out. Tarantulas sense the vibrations in the ground, so if you scratch the ground in front of its den, it quickl...

This Christmas was like none we've ever had. Felt rather strange to be eating mangoes and sweating in eighty plus degree heat on Christmas day. Good news for us is that Santa & Mrs. Klause travel. Mr. & Mrs. Santa Frantz/Coleman dawned their shorts and made the trip down south and boy did they deliver! We met them at the San Jose Airport in Costa Rica on Christmas Eve and they treated us to a very luxurious week at the nicest digs thus far. Adam and I wer...