The CEO of I’m Someone Inc
Re-acquainting readers with the golf scene in Costa Rica. There are no courses on the Caribbean side, where we are located. There is a ninehole course somewhere in the jungle-y hillside somewhere between Limon and Puerto Viejo. This course, word has it, is only for those who know someone who knows someone who is someone. Does anyone from the Little River Course know anyone that is someone? If you send them down, they can invite me to play with them as a guest.
There are twelve golf courses in the greater San Jose area along the Pacific Coast. Green fees are under a hundred dollars, but on the larger resort courses in the northern Guanacaste region, the more experienced golfer has higher green fees. Golf in Costa Rica is becoming a worldwide golfing destination and becoming more popular among local Costa Ricans. I recently met an American who lived with his wife in Costa Rica for twenty-two years. Both Mike and Johanna are from the North Bay area of California. They were involved with ecological projects in the mountainous region of Costa Rica, and Mike is a golfer. A three handicapper, Mike played in golf tournaments all over Costa Rica and Panama, and other Latin American countries. Unlike other sports, Mike and I agreed that golf has that unique aspect where a sixyear-old or a hundred and six-year-old can play the game. Or a ditch-digger and the CEO of I’m Someone Inc. can play on the same course. Once that tee is punched into the ground on the first hole, you are playing golf. Who you are and what you do off the course doesn’t matter. We’re playing golf now.
Mike and Johanna no longer live in Costa Rica but visit the country from time to time, checking in on their projects and visiting friends. They travel from Sebastopol, where they abide.
My wife Jan and I have been coming to Costa
Rica for seventeen years but never in May. We usually come in late February, March, or April. It is a little warmer in May, and yes, we have noticed it is. The locals are also saying Costa Rica has become warmer with less rain. In Costa Rica, in the past, we have experience pelting, thundering downpours of rain, unlike anything we have experienced anywhere else. Sometimes more rain in a few days than a month in California. On this trip, not much rain.