I have been back from my amazing trip to Costa Rica for three weeks and I am overdue in sharing some of my experiences.
After Mark, Chris and I landed and made it through immigration at the San Jose airport we met our driver, Favio, and headed straight up into the hills to tour La Minita [...]
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Costa Rica Travelogue
Fun Pumps Installed in Kenya
Notes from the road from Mark Stell, managing partner at Portland Roasting:
The proceeds from last year’s inaugural Walk for Water are being put to use this week as Mark travels to Kenya to see the site locations for water pumps being constructed by Water for All, the beneficiary of our event. The Fun Pump, a [...]
A Visit to La Hilda
Mark, Justin and Chris Carter, an FSA representative that won a Portland Roasting-sponsored trip for top salesman last year, are enjoying their tropical sojourn to our Farm Friendly Direct™ farm, La Hilda Estate in Costa Rica.
Mark weighs in on the trip:
I spent the day with Justin and Chris, who were enjoying their first visit to [...]
Visiting a Tea Garden
I never imagined that visiting a tea garden for the first time would affect me in such a wonderful way. Honestly, I never thought these magnificent places — the Annamalai ranges in Tamil Nadu state neighboring the Mudumalai and Indira Gandhi Wild Life Sanctuaries — existed.
It took us almost three hours from Coimbatore town [...]
