As most of you know, I work for a volunteer adventure company, Tropical Adventures, here in Costa Rica. At the moment I’m on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica working with some of our volunteers and organizations. We have two volunteers currently working on the indigenous reservation with a community called Uatsi.


I had the chance to go spend some time with them a couple of days ago. These two volunteers happen to be staying with a host family together. The host father is Timoteo Jackson (photo of me with Timoteo below), the tribal leader of one of the Bribri factions. Meeting him and spending time with him is such an honor. He exudes pure love and joy.

I was only there for a few hours the other day, but he cried when I left. He put his arm around me and sang a Bribri blessing for me. The whole experience was incredible. The Bribri are very proud, but quiet people. Not everyone is welcome on the reservation, so we feel super blessed to have been taken in by them and welcomed.

It’s so difficult to put into words what a rich experience it is to spend time with these wonderful people, so I hope you’ll take the time to look at some of our photos here.