Hermosa Beach House Costa Rica

I know that when you exhange your dollars for the foreign currency, there’s a fee. When you take out money from a foreign ATM, there’s (at least one) fee etc…It seems that no matter how you slice it, you’re going to pay an additional fee when dealing with money abroad. Which method of [...]

I am hoping to plan a trip soon that will begin in Costa Rica, and take me through Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and hopefully up to Guyana. Has anyone made a similar trip? (I am planning on flying from San Jose, CR to Quito, Ecuador to avoid the whole Colombian border deal).
Is it safe? [...]

i want to study abroad in spain, costa rica, dominican republic, or mexico. i DONT want to go to a city where everyone speaks english so i can’t even try to speak spanish with them. my options are:
vejer de la frontera, spain
marbella, spain
alicante, spain
playa del carmen, mexico
sosua or santo domingo, dominican republic
flamingo beach, monteverde, san [...]

I’m a 17-year-old girl, and I’m very interested in learning Spanish. I was recently in Costa Rica and Panama, and I plan on volunteering in Peru next year as well as visiting Spain in 2 years. What is the best way to become fluent in Spanish? I have absolutely no Spanish skills at all, [...]

I was unable to make a flight from San Francisco to Costa Rica, via Dallas due to a death in the family. I called to get flight credit and was not given any sympathy from the customer service agent. He basically said I was considered a ‘no show’ and thus the ticket is [...]

I have lived in So California my whole life i’m 23 years old and i own some property in Orange County that I rent out and live off of… I bring home about 60k a year which is hardly anything in orange county but in other countries it would be a very strong income… Where [...]

Foreign language classes have always been a challenge for me. I took Spanish and French classes in high school and College, but my memories of the languages are pretty insubstantial. I think I had trouble with compartmentalized nature in the way languages were taught. I passed the classes simply through memorization, but not [...]

We all now about the sudamericana thing but look:
6/30/2009 - NEW YORK – Any team playing in both the Confederations Cup and Gold Cup in the same year will be allowed to increase its roster from 23 to 30 players, CONCACAF announced Tuesday. The decision will enable the United States to add seven players to [...]

I’d like to move to South America for some time.I’m hoping to move somewhere cheap!Any Ideas?
Every website I go to has different prices for the “biggies” (housing, electricity etc..)
One website -”Can rent in San Jose, Costa Rica for as low as $200″ -to live comfortably..
Another-”Rent only goes as low as $500″-to live comfortably..
Anyone have any [...]

I LOVE traveling and it sounds like I will be going to Hawaii June of 2009 for my honeymoon and for some reason I am not very excited about it.
A couple years ago I read a book called In Search of Captain Zero and it got me really excited about going to Costa Rica. [...]