Flowering trees are well-known throughout Guanacaste, the most famous of which is probably the Cortez Amarillo. A native dry-tropical forest tree, Cortez Amarillo spends a few, impressively synchronized days each year displaying fabulous yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers that attract animals from all over the forest. Typically this occurs at the end of the dry season; one …

Guess Who Came to Dinner? (Note: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is a 60’s era film about inter-racial marriage, historically illegal in most of the US and still outlawed in one out of three states, when the film was released.) It can be argued that musicians, athletes and actors such as Sidney Poitier helped, over …