We need to select a few more place names at Las Catalinas. So here is another poll. I do appreciate your votes in this - I'm a believer in the wisdom of crowds for this kind of thing.
This is something that I wrote back in June of 2006 when we were still working on getting the Las Catalinas land under contract. I can't believe I haven't posted it here before now! A rewrite today would mention a few things that are omitted here. But not much else would change. I know, because a ...
Here is a little video courtesy of Jim Berry. It is taken from the second floor of my house, as of around June 1, looking around at the other houses and the sea view. Looking good!
This summer, we intend to host a few groups of prospective buyers at Las Catalinas. If you'd like to be a part of one of these visits, please contact us for details about dates and accommodations.
I was in Las Catalinas last week and I need to catch up on some posts related to that very enjoyable trip. On Thursday morning I was out for a hike and as I was descending from Windy Peak I heard some commotion in the trees. There were at least a dozen white-faced Monkeys making their way through ...
People sometimes ask me, Why, of all the things you could be doing, are you working on Las Catalinas? (I suspect this is because of the vastly lower prestige associated with being a real estate developer vs. being a technology entrepreneur.) Here is my answer.
After an absence of several months, the rain returned to Las Catalinas last night. A steady rain fell all through the night. This is a wonderful and welcome event each year. Nature's response to this annual event is so rapid and so profound that it tends to amaze people - even though they know to ...
I'm posting here the text of a speech I gave to the League of Women Voters in Atlanta last fall. It is not about Las Catalinas - but the concepts are. In fact the story that is at the heart of it I adopted from a piece I wrote back in 2006 about an imaginary day in the Las Catalinas of the future. ...
I'm participating in a webcast tonight at:
From the Tico Times: The number of tourists who landed in January and February at the Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia, a short drive from popular beaches in Costa Rica's northern Pacific province of Guanacaste, was up more than 24 percent from the same span in 2009, according to the ...
The day before yesterday Jim Berry called and told me there were two adult whales and a baby just offshore from our Punta Penca. Then last night I saw this story about a baby whale tangled in a net out by the Catalina Islands (also nearby):
We are very pleased and proud to announce that Githa and Coo ten Hope Saarberg will be opening a magnificent equestrian center at Las Catalinas next year. The center will consist of boarding, training, dressage, jumping, children's clinics, and trail riding within the 1200 acres of Las Catalinas. ...
I believe it is a fact that no storm with hurricane force winds has ever hit Costa Rica. Basically the country is at too low a latitude for the coriolis effect to kick in and give storms the rotational punch they need to become hurricanes. Google comes up with three hurricanes that have come close ...
In yesterday's election Costa Rica elected its first woman president, Laura Chinchilla. She served as the Vice President in the current administration of Oscar Arias before resigning last year to campaign for the presidency.
This, right now, is about as off-season as it gets around Las Catalinas. We are at the statistical peak of rainfall for the year, and some hotels and restaurants in the area close. However, that doesn't mean it isn't pretty. The last few days have been exceptionally beautiful, with sun, clear ...
Here in Atlanta: 37 degrees and a cold steady rain for the last two days...
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