What Got Me Started.
Having traveled all across Costa Rica during a week-long class trip in high school, I developed a strong passion for not only the landscape, but for the people and the way in which they lived a life that was completely different than my own.
Years later, my passion has increased if anything. The people of Costa Rica are by far some of the most warm and welcoming people I have ever met in my life. They work hard for the little money they take in, provided that their businesses thrive off of tourism, which happens to be quite low now because of the current situation we find ourselves in with the economy.
I came across the Pura Vida Bracelets website by chance while I was perusing on Facebook one day, my face lighting up as I spotted the phrase "Pura Vida". It was a phrase I'd heard used over and over again throughout my entire trip, by locals and tourists alike. The term literally means "Pure Life", being used as an expression for greeting someone, bidding them farewell, or simply using it in passing as an acknowledgment of the other's presence.
In some ways, I have created this site to help me further express and share with you my own personal experiences and ties to Costa Rica and its people, and what it's meant to have had a chance to realize that you never really know how much better or worse off than you someone else truly is. It makes you appreciate the little things in life, and to never take them for granted.
Years later, my passion has increased if anything. The people of Costa Rica are by far some of the most warm and welcoming people I have ever met in my life. They work hard for the little money they take in, provided that their businesses thrive off of tourism, which happens to be quite low now because of the current situation we find ourselves in with the economy.
I came across the Pura Vida Bracelets website by chance while I was perusing on Facebook one day, my face lighting up as I spotted the phrase "Pura Vida". It was a phrase I'd heard used over and over again throughout my entire trip, by locals and tourists alike. The term literally means "Pure Life", being used as an expression for greeting someone, bidding them farewell, or simply using it in passing as an acknowledgment of the other's presence.
In some ways, I have created this site to help me further express and share with you my own personal experiences and ties to Costa Rica and its people, and what it's meant to have had a chance to realize that you never really know how much better or worse off than you someone else truly is. It makes you appreciate the little things in life, and to never take them for granted.