09 dec Video: November 2019 | Settling in Puerto Viejo
During this month we really felt like we settled in Puerto Viejo. The kids enjoyed the combination of their school, the beaches and all the different kind of animals....
14 mei Traveling back to Holland
On april 28th 2019 we started the long journey back to Holland where we will spend a few summer months with family and friends. The entire journey would take about 26 hours door to door: one international flight from San José to Cancun, then a...
12 mrt Picking up our daughter from her school in the jungle
We have found a great school for our daughter Isa close to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. For the coming two months, every morning we bring her to a beautiful school in the middle of the jungle. The road is about 5k and takes us alongside...
26 feb Pura Vida in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
The sound of howler monkeys is coming from the jungle behind our house. The sun is rising somewhere behind the trees. And if we listen carefully we can hear the waves that makes all the surfers come here crashing at the beach. Our two kids...
06 jan Poem: Song of the open road (inspired our website name;)
This is the poem that inspired the name for our website. It spoke straight to our hearts and we hope it speaks to yours as well. By Walt Whitman Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before...
28 nov Preparing the vans for roadtripping and filmmaking (video)
In november 2016 we took two weeks to prepare the VW vans for the exiting trip to Costa Rica. The mountain village of San Cristobal de las Casas was our base. We had a new matrass made for the guys to sleep on in the...
01 nov Two months in Playa del Carmen: our top 6
We have been in Playa del Carmen for the last two months and we have really come to love this city. It is 100% Mexican but with a lot of foreign influences. If you ignore the fact that the cash machines sometimes spit dollars and...