Dominical, Costa Rica

Here's an old photo of My friend Natalia, Josh and I in front of the tent we lived in for 6 months in Dominical, Costa Rica. Oceanna is the beach dog that we fed and in return she guarded our tent day and night. Dogs run free there, up and down the beaches, through the jungles and even walk into restaurants! But because of the huge numbers of them the locals put out poison once a year and tell owners to keep their pets inside. It's horrible and not a solution in my eyes.

Josh and I lived on $250 a month, including food, traveling around on buses and daily needs. We just set up a tent on the beach near some fishermen under some palm trees and I home-schooled Josh every day, letting him go surfing when he was done. Then we went to Panama for a Rainbow Gathering, back up to Costa Rica where we met up with friends who were caravanning all the way to Mexico. So we Traveled part of the way with them up through Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and parted ways with them in Guatemala. Josh and I arrived at the Mexico Rainbow Gathering with only 10 pesos in our pocket (that's another story though).

We wrote a book for two years (that we'll be releasing soon), that includes some pretty crazy stories of our travels, lots of vegan recipes (half raw and half cooked), vegan myth-busters, environmental, health and karmic reasons to consider the lifestyle, and loads of photos! It has been a lot more work than I ever would have imagined, but the final product is beautiful and I'm very pleased that we did it. I'll be letting everyone know when it comes out.