From Tourist to Local: Six Weeks in Surfside Costa Rica

So you kind of talked about your, you know, growing up and travel.

But for you, I really just want you to tell me what does travel mean to you? You say you're trying to see the world, what draws you to travel? And just why does it make you happy and something you would put your time and money towards?

Yeah.

So I always tell people I feel like I was put on earth to meet other people because I love to talk.

I love to hear experiences and hear people share their life and what they're working on or what they're excited about.

So I travel to experience life with people I don't really know how to like sum that up but yeah I just kind of travel to experience life for myself but also for other people because everywhere you travel to you meet people you know whether it be a local or another fellow traveler and I just love knowing like that I can learn something from them and hear their story and their experiences and just like yeah it just really it really like sets my soul on fire to like talk to people who haven't lived the same life that I lived

A hundred percent.

I totally, totally get that.

And I think travel is awesome to see places, but the people is what really makes it more meaningful to me.

And it sounds like you're the same, you know, you, there are beautiful beaches everywhere, but when you see who the people that are at the beaches that are from there, I think that goes a little further than just, Oh, this, this is pretty water.

I don't know.

It sounds like you agree.

Right.

Cause it's yeah.

Like the, the landscape is gorgeous, but the landscape is nothing if not for the people.

Hey, man, that's a quote and a half right there.

I like that.

We started early with a

t-shirt.

Right.

So I want you to tell me, though, when I know you probably talked about this two years ago, but I just need a reminder.

What was the moment or where were you? What were you doing where you decided I need to see more? Was it your study abroad experience? Like, what was that, you know, that moment that really thrusted you towards this whole mentality that I want to see more and more and more and more?

I think it started when I was a kid.

So growing up, I never watched cartoons on Saturday or Sunday mornings.

I always watched, I think her name was like Samantha Brown, maybe.