costa rica – Eat, Play, Live

Large to small

This is an interesting challenge. It reminds me of those cardboard children’s books where each page there is a small cutout of a color and it leads you another object to the next page and on to the next page. If this was a children’s book, it would a color feature and the first page would start off as a large object going down to a small object with that color.

I decided for this challenge to play with the color yellow because it’s warm, inviting, and fun. Plus, I wanted some excuse to share a photo of the gigantic Rubber Duck sculpture. I remembered when the duck arrived to San Pedro many years ago, I dragged my boyfriend (now husband) to go check it out after work. I think if it were to make a children’s board book around the color yellow, these photos could pull it off…

Mama duck and baby duck in San Pedro
Sunflowers in Parque de la Reserva (Lima, Peru)
“Owl Eyes” on a butterfly (Costa Rica)

Here are some colors from large and small across the blogosphere!

…plus other fellow yellows!

Lens-Artist Challenge: Large to Small

CMMC – June Color – Yellow

The hummingbirds and the bees

Selvatura Park, Monteverde, Costa Rica – September 2016

We went to Costa Rica during Labor Day weekend about four years ago. Selvatura Park was one of my favorite experiences in Costa Rica. You walk across many hanging bridges bridges to explore the cloud forest, a butterfly garden, and a hummingbird garden. The hummingbird garden was my attempt in capturing hummingbirds at mid-flight. Also, I have to say, it was one of the few times I was not scared of bees — they were harmless.

Lens-Artists Challenge #130: It’s a Small World

I have many travel photos I’ve been meaning to share on my blog and SmugMug album. Hopefully I make Travel Tuesday a consistent series on my blog.

Week 16: Ziplining

Week 16: Scary and cool travel stories

Not scary, more like thrilling and cool! One day I’d like to write about 100 Travel experiences one should do in their lifetime. In my book, I would certainly include a ziplining tour. It does not matter where; it could be in Catalina island, Denali National Park, Zion Canyon. How badass is it to do an aerial tour over a canyon?

My first time I did ziplining was last year in Costa Rica. I was a little scared. I thought to myself, “what did I sign up myself for?” Sure I wrote the itinerary way back when. Sure this is one of the things to do in Costa Rica. You are flying above the trees. Nothing is below you except that landing pad on the other side of the zipline.

My husband flies free

Oh dear if there was no landing pad it’s straight down to the forest floor.

Whatever my initials fears were up to the tour, wiped away after my first launch. In the air I thought, “I can’t believe I am doing this.” I wished I zipped slower to take in the views. Such a unique experience!

Have you gone ziplining? If so, where?

Read more posts from the Travel Blogging Challenge:

Week 1: Your Favorite Travel Photo of You and Intro
Week 2: Little Known Travel Tips
Week 3: Funny Travel Story
Week 4: Travel Misadventures
Week 5: Top three cultural foods
Week 6: Unusual Travel Activities and Photos
Week 7: Inspiration for traveling
Week 8: 5 Favorite Blogs
Week 9: Gross/disgusting travel stories
Week 10: Best adventures while traveling
Week 11: What’s in my backpack?
Week 12: Happy and Sad Travel Stories
Week 13: Unique Cultures Encountered
Week 14: Top 3 Travel Destinations d
Week 15: Travel Regrets

Who else is doing the challenge?

Interested in participating in the Weekly Travel Blogging Challenge? Feel free to make your own today!

Week 10: Some of my many favorite adventures

Week 10: Best adventures while traveling

I am going to begin this post but going off-topic. My friend who I’ve known since my college years inquired about starting a blog. We met in LA and it’s funny how we kept in touch after all these years. I moved to San Diego, she moved to Monterey Bay. I moved back to LA, and she moved back to El Salvador. I think she should go for it :-).

It’s Travel Tuesday and I am halfway through the challenge. So far it’s been fun writing all about my adventures and an excuse to pull out some old photos. I am not sure how to organize this post, so why not just list down my many favorite adventures!

Monteverde Cloud Forest Tour – This was from my Costa Rica trip last year. I loved how everything was so green and the fauna was so diverse!

Ziplining – When you are in Costa Rica, you got to go zip-lining. It’s quite a unique 360 experience of the absorbing the rainforest around you.

Going on a boat –– really any activity on a boat is fun. Unless you get seasick.

Me on a boat from Amalfi to Capri

Taking public transit – I enjoy taking the train whether it’s Amtrak at home, the Trenitalia in Italy, or the subway in Paris.

Hiking the Amalfi Coast, National Parks, cities — hike anywhere really… Just go outside!

Mt. Tre Cali at Amalfi Coast

Yosemite, CA

Sequoia, Kings Canyon, CA

Me wandering around Florence, Italy

A lot of times, my adventures are local. I like going to quirky events like the Lego exhibit in Glendale, driving all the way down to San Pedro after work to see the large rubber duck, or taking the subway to downtown LA to see large inflatable bunnies.

Read more posts from the Travel Blogging Challenge:

Who else is doing the challenge?

Interested in participating in the Weekly Travel Blogging Challenge? Feel free to make your own today!

Bridges around the World

Wow, I had to dig really deep to find some photos of a bridges from my travels. There’s something so charming, pensive, or adventurous about bridges no matter what the size.