He lived with a Costa Rican family who helped him with his Spanish and worked as an English teacher, “so it was anything but a cool, pura vida Costa Rica experience,” he joked. “One of the ...

Pull up to the sunny grounds of the W Hotel in Costa Rica’s Reserva Conchal ... Costa Ricans live by the mantra of Pura Vida. Translated, it means “pure life,” and is an embodiment of ...