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So many people from my past who find me on the internet ask why I moved to Costa Rica. Well, I tell them, maybe you should sit down because the answer is a bit long if you really want to know. When we lived in the US and attended monthly potlucks, one of the topics of conversation was whether Nirvana actually existed and if it did, where was it?
About 9 years ago we took a family vacation to Costa Rica. Our two boys were quite young then, but old enough to appreciate it. When we got home 10 days later we told our friends that we may have found Nirvana. Where, they asked? Costa Rica. No one really took us seriously. While the conversations at the potlucks continued, I was busy searching the internet for the perfect spot in Costa Rica. I had to resort to intuition because there were way too many options and I had so little experience. Call it luck, call it coincidence, call it whatever, but we honed in on an area somewhere between the Pacific Ocean and a small Central American city introduced to me by a real estate agent I had found on my net surfing adventures.
Part of the draw to Costa Rica was the climate. We had a desire to live on a farm and grow our own food, especially fruit, year round. We also were done with winter and keeping warm by burning one thing or another. We also had a desire to live sustainably and stop driving all over creation looking for something to either put in our stomachs, on our bodies, or on the mantel piece that, all of which, would eventually end up in a closet- except the food of course, which actually does sort of go in a closet which is then flushed to another part of the world, where only God knows. We were done with the normal, main stream, consumption based, you're not dumping that in my backyard so I'll send it to someone else that I don't know and can't feel guilty about it, homogenized thinking. We wanted to be somewhere we could work and be with the cycles of nature, to feel and breathe clean air and drink water that was born on the land we stood. We wanted to live in the garden of Eden. And if it didn't exist we were going to create it. We just needed the right place to do it.
One year after our vacation, armed with maps, printouts, a knapsack full of notes and a sack of faith, we went back to Costa Rica. We started with Guanacaste (Nicoya Peninsula) to look around and see if there was anything for us. It was March and it was hot and it was dry. The beaches were beautiful but the yard of the one house we looked at was rippling with heat waves and the grass was brown and crunchy. We got a little suspicious when the people house sitting said they preferred the rainy season. After a few nice days in Montezuma at the El Sano Banano hotel on the beach, we headed south.
Although it was quite rustic at our destination of the Domincal/San Isidro area, we began to feel like this could be the place. Jimmy our real estate contact took us to a small rural neighborhood in the mountains, centered between ocean and city, that he felt would be perfect for us. He was right. We looked at a few farms before we saw the one- it had views of the ocean, mountain breezes, water, woods, trees and jungle. After returning to New York, we told our friends that we found it. They said found what? We found Nirvana and we are going to move there. No one believed us, or maybe they were simply in denial because nobody likes the feeling of being left behind. Nine months later there we were driving up to our land that we had only seen once before getting ready for a change, a change that well, will have to be saved for another article. Let's just say that now, almost 8 years later our garden of Eden has blossomed into, well, almost Nivana.
If you are tired of the broken record thinking, broken promises and broken dreams, come on down here and see if this place is where you might start living the life you've wanted. May I dedicate this new website to the dreamers, the thinkers and the doers, for someday soon this website will be filled with wonderful stories and accounts of the new paradigm in the making. It shall be a reflection of a growing community of like-minded people wanting and living for a new world worth living.
Steven J Corwin, Vida Natural
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