Carol Ann Davidson

Spa treatments in tropical surroundings are one way to relax at the Costa Rican eco-lodge.

Costa Rican eco-lodge is sanctuary that reminds us why we travel in first place

April 13, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.

Of all my travel stories that have been published this past decade, this one is both the most difficult to write and the most significant. Difficult because all travel has...

The Lotus Wellness event. (Carol Ann Davidson/TNS)

Costa Rican lodge is sanctuary that will remind us why we travel in first place

April 10, 2020 at 9:58 p.m.

Of all my travel stories that have been published this past decade, this one is both the most difficult to write and the most significant. Difficult because all travel has...

Costa Rican lodge is sanctuary that will remind us why we travel in first place

April 10, 2020 at 6:57 p.m.

In early March, I boarded a canopied motor boat at Puerto Jimenez and sped across the placid gulf for 30 minutes to a secluded mile-long beach rimmed with palm trees....

Oh to be sitting there on Friendship Beach in front of the Bequia Beach Hotel.

Finding Bequia

January 14, 2020 at 6:01 p.m.

"You're going to Bequia?" friends had asked, "to write about it?" The implication being, they'd hoped to keep their vacation paradise in the Caribbean a secret. I, with a slight...

Scenes of yesteryear people walls of the Bequia Beach Hotel.

Finding Bequia: Hidden Caribbean idyll home to luxury hotel

January 17, 2020 at 4:35 p.m.

"You're going to Bequia?" friends had asked, "to write about it?" The implication being, they'd hoped to keep their vacation paradise in the Caribbean a secret. I, with a slight...

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