Dear Nikon

Dear Nikon

Dear Nikon, My name is Kristen and I live in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. I am a dreamer and a doer. I love to dance with waves {surf}, chase sunsets, stand on my head, and laugh my butt off.  I am also head-over-heels in love with taking photographs with my Nikon DSLR...
Boat House Apparel

Boat House Apparel

The surfing world can be very small at times. Like one or two degrees of separation small. Enter Becca. She contacted me back in December about her upcoming trip to Tamarindo. It just so happens that I not only know her brother through surfing Tamarindo, but also...
Samba With Me

Samba With Me

Samba. It is neither just the music nor the dance itself, but a culmination of passion, sexuality, and an innate fervor from deep within. Samba is one’s true self. Since packing up my NYC apartment and leaving my corporate job, I have been following my heart and...
Wedding Número Cuatro

Wedding Número Cuatro

What to do when the mother-of-the-groom falls and breaks her arm two hours before the ceremony and is rushed to the hospital for surgery? Have your cousin GoPro the ceremony. Hide your iPhone in the bust of your dress so you can record the ceremony just in case #1 has...
Amor

Amor

So about 29 years ago my brother was not a very happy camper. He was about to become a big brother, and worse yet, to a little girl. That little girl was me. Little did he know that I would have preferred an older sister. So began our story. Lawrence and I fought like...
Pisco Pisco

Pisco Pisco

Decisions, decisions. Back in August when I was researching fares for my brother’s wedding in Brazil, I had two options. A) Connect through Atlanta, or B) Connect through Lima, Peru. If I had to stop in Peru, why not force a longer layover? I typed in an earlier...