En Route to Panama

En route from Costa Rica to Panama, we discover all sorts of fun things: our rockiest movie yet, candy health commercials, and It's your typical family road trip but in Central American!

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La Lucha School

Volunteering in the rural school of La Lucha de la Tigra, Costa Rica changed our lives. We were welcomed and loved whole-heartedly by an entire community. We spent whole days in the school, after schools at friends' houses, and many weekends with overnight company, mostly Ever. Our kids marched into classrooms in which neither the teacher nor the students could speak a word they could understand. As an ad hoc English teacher on the road throughout Latin America, the rewards of teaching has  ALWAYS been watching my kids gain friends from it.

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Free Rainforest Exhibition

en route with my son's new best friend Ever

We know many who have paid $100 a person for a day in the rainforest. WE DID IT FOR FREE!!! So cool, and just one example of what is available to you when you are a nomadic family:  travel slowly, live with the locals, and get to experience EVERY TOURIST ATTRACTION IMAGINABLE for free! We've had so far over a dozen such experiences. This exhibition was led by our neighbor Oscar who took us for a four-hour exhibition through rain forest, fields, and valleys. We went with my son's new best friend Ever. I still can't seem to write about  Ever too much.

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Best Friends, Cowboy Gatherings, & Pineapples

"Oracio es me mejor amigo"(orazi is my best friend) Ever (the boy's name) says, as he hugs my boy.Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good. My motherly heart is overflowth. The rest of our day pales in comparison, it's just details compared to that. But, it's still worth sharing cuz it was amazing. We spent our day 100% with the locals of La Lucha celebrating a country fair!!!!

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Costa Rican Shabbat

As a nomadic family, we are honored, when (once in a while) we get to share magical moments with our new friends. Here, on the ranch in La Lucha de la Tigra, Costa Rica we had so many magical sharing of cultures.

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Stay or Go

When you are a nomadic family scaling the globe, you have total freedom to decide each and every next step. Very cool, and, at the same time, very over-whelming. These two videos reflect our confusion and how we're trying to wade our way out of it.

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What I've Learned This Week- June, La Lucha de La Tigre, Costa Rica

As a nomadic family living on a remote ranch in Costa Rica, we discovered new and marvelous things. In this entry, I want to share 11 surprising and wondrous insights from our lives here.

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Sonia and Don Jose Ramon

Living on a secluded ranch, off a dirt road in La Lucha de la Tigra Costa Rica was our first nomadic family Latin American immersion. We dedicate this entry to all the magic and love that Don Jose Ramon and Sonia brought to our lives in those weeks.

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Joy in the Simple Things

I know I'm the mom, but Ithink they are just amazing. My kids refuse to be bored. Life as a nomadic family has allowed them to become even more inventive, creative, imaginative, and full of light. Watch this collection of videos from our slow-paced life on the ranch; and their magic, as they wait at a bus stop,create marvelous worlds out of boredom, and learn to enjoy hanging out with their parents, and themselves.

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Life and Death on the Ranch

Our days on the ranch in the La Lucha De La Tigra, Costa Rica were like no other. We learned to work the land, to know its animals; to pick, dig, lasso, milk, fish, fix, create, ride, explore and observe. Things that only happened because we lived there, with the locals, very quietly in an unrushed and open sort of way for 42 marvelous days.Such gifts for a nomadic family!

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Volunteering and Sharing Cultures

In La Lucha de la Tigra, Costa Rica and its neighboring town Florencia; we were blessed to share our lives with others. We got to teach English and a Clean Your Soul class to the adults, English in the local school, and share precious moments with the senior citizens. We gave a few gifts and got so many, many more. This collection of video and pictures reflects a few moments from that magic.

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Winter Storms of the Soul

Confusion. Uncertainty. Unknown. Too Many Choices. Should I go or Should I Stay? This has become one of the most popular entries. It reflects that total freedom of choice when your heart says one thing and your soul says another, and it's not clear which you should follow.....

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Proyecto Asis Wildlife Rescue

This week we had the honor of volunteering in Project Asis, the Costa Rican WildLife and Rescue Foundation. The organization does amazing things.The sign at their door says it all... we are here to care for the child, the bird, the flower all the same, all creations from god.

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Glimpses of a Rancher's Life

Life on the ranch in La Lucha de la Tigra, Costa Rica and in neighboring Florencia allowed us to experience so much we had never touched or tasted before. From hitchhiking on the back of an open truck, to rainforest exhibitions by a kindly neighbor, to working on the farm to fishing to volunteering, to getting really bored... Here's a smattersborge(?) of some of that precious, crazy, new life.

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Tammy Days

Wow! Last night we received our second donation, and boy were we excited! I almost cried (which doesn't say soooo much cuz I cry all the time). Either way, both donations were for $100.As a nomadic family, we have an online presence and sell products and my skype coaching services to fund our journeys. In honor of Tammy Portnoy and her donations, we'd like to declare "Tammy Days" and dedicate these last two days in her honor. Thank you Tammy.

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Arriving At the Ranch- He Said/ She Said

We were driven about 45 minutes out of La Fortuna, Costa Rica to the most beautiful, remote ranch in La Lucha De La Tigra, Costa Rica. Gabi is overjoyed by the real, authenticity of it all; Kobi is overwhelmed by how secluded it seems. Here are some videos that reflect our beginnings of life on the ranch in what we know lovingly refer to as "La Lucha: Our First Real Home on the Road"

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Meet Kendall Lopez from Costa Rica

So here we are at a secluded farm at Costa Rica. Here, we get to watch the rain a lot and as Kendal told us, after the rain, you can hear the birds singing beautiful melodies. He's right.

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La Fortuna

After a quick stop in San Jose, La Fortuna was our first chance to put our foot on the ground and look around. We stayed for five days and caught our breath. We're here. We're in Central America. Now what? Here are some first pictures, first impressions, first babbling/gushing thoughts about starting the Central American leg of our nomadic family adventure.

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Leaving What We Loved

When the time to go went from months to weeks, I freaked out. I love my life in Northern Israel. I do.I love the school we established two years ago, I love my friends, I love my job as a family therapist with a radio show. I love the nature and the pace of life in the Upper Galilee Valley of Israel. I love my home! The thought of leaving behind all that I love, deeply love, was terrifying. Why in the Hell Would I Throw Away a Perfectly Good, Rewarding LIfe? Why? Here are the last glimpses into the world we left, before becoming a nomadic family.

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First Breath of Costa Rica

We've arrived in Costa Rica. After two months on the road, from Israel to New York, to Houston, across three states in an RV, to California, back to Houston, and now, finally we've landed in Central America. Here is a collection of what we saw and the things we remember in the blur of flights, taxis, buses, and new everything.

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Redefining Our Paradigms

Before becoming a nomadic family, we lived in Israel for almost 8 years. People always ask me if it's scary living in that war-torn desert. What you know about The Holy Land is what the media wants you to know. Let's put it this way; if i listened to the media and to what other people have told me regarding how I 'should' be raising my children in the stability bubble; I would never have left the comforts of my lovely home to become a nomadic family. As a messanger, if you will, of my home land, below are some short and awesome movies about Israel, made by our family and others.

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