A Photo Essay of Nosara, Costa Rica: My First Home in my Gap Year

I was falling in love with living again

Here in the midst of travelers

Of nature

Walking barefoot through the streets

Every step connecting me to the ground around me

Illusions disappearing

Where clarity now resides

You have taught me so much and we’ve only just begun

Hiking the coastal cliff and making new little friends on the beach through a soccer ball.

waterfall jumping

sunset games and the local shops

4am new moon sunrise surfing

an international hostal family and walking the beach with my kids class to find art materials

These are only a few sweet memories made in the first few months of travelling, but each of them made me grow. I share these to anyone looking for their path after school, in hopes it may excite you about all the possibilities the world holds.

The possibilities that you cannot find on the internet, but those you have to discover yourself.

In these moments I found happiness that I never knew existed.