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Sweet Tamarindo
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Single and Unattached: Coast Thru Life
It might seem crazy what I’m about to say Sunshine she’s here, you can take a break I’m a hot air balloon that could go to space With the air, like I don’t care baby by the way Because I’m happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I’m happy Clap...
Escape to Paradise
O.K. all of you Northerners that KEEP getting snowstorm after snowstorm, listen up. Thought it was time to send some warm sunshine and Pura Vida your way with some pictures of paradise. Don't worry, I am suffering as much as y'all are; the waves have practically been...
Liquid Dreams
When you are as frothy as I am, the best birthday present a wahine could ask for are waves. I am talking about head-high+, offshore, barreling waves. I would much rather be surfed-out then hung over. Just my luck, I woke up to flat and even flatter waves. So what is a...
Don’t Date A Girl Who Travels
Yesterday I started noticing excerpts posted on Facebook from what I discovered this morning (thanks Ashley) to be a blog post titled "Don't Date A Girl Who Travels". The words are beautiful and I am secretly jealous that I didn't pen this post myself. If you have not...
Confessions of a Surf Bum
The ocean is in constant flux, and when you spend a lot of time in it you become like a floating bottle with a message inside; you know you're somewhere, sense you have a purpose, but you also know that you're at the mercy of the winds and currents, that surrendering...
Dethawing
Now that I have FINALLY de-thawed from the "Polar Vortex" that engulfed all of the East coast the beginning of January and landed back in sunny Costa Rica I can actually move my fingers to type. OK, this is a little bit of an exaggeration, but seriously 18 degrees...
Counting Down
With the time ticking down for the year 2013 I thought I would help the year end with a "bang" of my top ten 2013 moments. A special thanks to my "One Line A Day" journal, Facebook, and Instagram for helping to remind this blonde surf chica of some of those amazing...
Dear Costa Rica
Dear Costa Rica, I am without words but so full of emotion. I woke up this morning full of sorrow. When it usually is sunny and not a cloud in the sky, it was cloudy, windy and gloomy. How do you read my emotions so well? I am sitting in the airport and am tearing up....
Dear Santa
Some people have vivid memories of when they found out or were told that Santa was not responsible for all of those presents. Being the youngest child, I guess my parents figured that I would find out from my older siblings without having to actually tell me. But no...
No Waves, No Problem
Someone has a serious case of writer's block and that someone may just be me. Almost two weeks and I got nada brainstorming up there in my noggin. ZERO. I blame waves and then the lack there of waves. You see, a couple days after my last post, a fun swell appeared...
Gracias
Somewhere thousands of miles away it is snowing and someone is bundling up to face the cold weather. I know because Facebook told me so. It also has informed me that my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, is days away. Hard to believe when the leaves outside are still on...
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Kristen M. Brown is an internationally published lifestyle photographer and the photographer behind Samba to the Sea™.
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