costa rica – Culture Monk

Get your burgers out of Costa Rica…REALLY???

By Kaycee on January 27, 2015 • ( 14 )

~ When I first visited Costa Rica nearly ten years ago I fell in love with the place. And while I could talk endlessly about the beaches, the jungle, the animals and everything else about the place that I… Read More ›

Giving up Hollywood for your parents…REALLY???

By Kaycee on February 4, 2014 • ( 55 )

by Kenneth Justice ~ “I left Hollywood and the hope of furthering my career as an actor to come back home for my parents” he said. One of my really close coffee house friends works in the entertainment business. Throughout most of the 19990’s… Read More ›

The homeless use the bathroom too…REALLY???

By Kaycee on February 2, 2014 • ( 93 )

by Kenneth Justice ~ Last week while walking down the beach early one morning in the Caribbean I came across a homeless guy who was passed out beside his makeshift shelter in the jungle. Apparently he had too much to… Read More ›

Getting stoned with a ‘Rasta Mon’…REALLY???

By Kaycee on January 30, 2014 • ( 57 )

by Kenneth Justice ~ “I haven’t smelled this much weed since my college days 30 years ago” said my friend. Last week we were sitting at a trendy little beach-side restaurant alongside the Caribbean Sea in Costa Rica. Costa Rica… Read More ›

Forcing USA values on other countries…REALLY???

By Kaycee on January 27, 2014 • ( 85 )

by Kenneth Justice ~ “They hire illegal U.S. workers because they show up to work on time” he said Last week on my trip to Costa Rica I talked with a number of different U.S. men and women who own… Read More ›

Stealing jobs from the poor…REALLY???

By Kaycee on January 25, 2014 • ( 56 )

Th by Kenneth Justice ~ “Basically, all these people from the United States that you see are all here illegally…stealing jobs from the poor” she said For the last five days of my trip to the Caribbean in Costa Rica… Read More ›

They spit in my face all the time…REALLY???

By Kaycee on January 24, 2014 • ( 53 )

by Kenneth Justice ~ “I have people spit in my face all the time” she said I was sitting in a little airport coffee house during my travels this past week when a TSA agent sat down next to me…. Read More ›

I’m not ready for paradise…REALLY???

By Kaycee on January 23, 2014 • ( 50 )

by Kenneth Justice ~ “Kenneth, I could totally see you living down here the rest of your life” said my friend I’ve been staying along the Caribbean in Costa Rica for the past week when a couple days ago I received an… Read More ›

Selling off everything you own for a dream…REALLY???

By Kaycee on January 22, 2014 • ( 77 )

by Kenneth Justice ~ “We sold everything we own; our house, cars….everything….and we moved to Costa Rica” he said Yesterday I met Winston & Donna; they’ve been married four years and are from Urban Washington D.C. One day they got tired of… Read More ›

Using you to get drunk…REALLY???

By Kaycee on January 20, 2014 • ( 82 )

by Kenneth Justice ~ “Dude, she is totally wasted!” Last night we got dinner along the shore of the Caribbean at a little beach side restaurant/bar and I noticed that one of the young women sitting at the bar (not… Read More ›