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Costa Rica leaders have historically invested in the nations future by providing all that its citizens need to thwart poverty. The people have been able to profit from a thriving export business and creating a nation where those investing in Costa Rica also prosper.

The beautiful Costa Rica Land is more than just a vacation destination. It is also home to over four thousand people. Home for Costa Ricans is 32,000 miles of varied terrain that is landlocked to the north by Nicaragua and in the south by Panama, and lets not forget the Caribbean Sea as well as the Pacific Ocean.

The history of the nation 10,000 years long, marks its modern day founding in the mid 1500’s. the nation developed slowly until the late 1800’s, a strong government had been set up and politicians were making bold national policies. Implementing free primary and secondary education for all citizens and even abolishing the death penalty. Last century, Costa Rica became a democratic nation, woman and blacks were given the right to vote. The national military was disbanded and Costa Rica was declared itself neutral nation. The nation’s citizens also enjoy free health care.

Costa Rica land is rich providing the nation with a healthy export business in coffee and bananas. These resources have been used to the point where they are the foundation of much of the country’s economy. Costa Rica has a sizable income from tourism and the export of electronics, textiles exotic flowers and more. Costa Rica real estate is presently proving to be the country’s most sought after commodity. This is due to the fact that Costa Rican officials have been offering irresistible incentives to buyers investing in Costa Rica real estate along the coast as well as inland real estate in Costa Rica.

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The Age of Empires – (as I call it), also known as the classical era. This was a long period of cultural history centered around the Mediterranean Sea. This aree comprised of the many civilizations of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Persia, and Egypt.This Age saw the rise and fall of the Egyptian Empire, the Greek Empire, the Persian empire and the Roman Empire. This era also so the creation of the Jewish religion with their Exodus out of Egypt, as well as formation of Christianity. An amazing time to live! I love to watch movies from this era. I wish there were more!

The Dark/Mideival Age – After the fall of the Roman Empire, a period of cultural decline that took place in Western Europe. Writings of Historical Record became sparse, and oral tradition became more abundant. Some historians say that the Dark Ages is not an appropriate label for this time period, but it makes sense to me.

The Age of Exploration – Beginning in the late 15th century and lasting into the early 17th century. This age can just as easily be called the Age of Discovery. During which, the Europeans and their descendants intensively explored and mapped the world. America, Australia, and New Zealand were all discovered during this period. Most European countries were still ruled by Kings and Queens. While in America and Australia, the natives were still mostly living Nomadic lives.
What a stark contrast between all of the different cultures! For instance, the movie: “Last of the Mohicans” took place in 1757 a.d., while “The Patriot” was set in 1776 a.d.
I think that’s amazing to think about. All of the different walks of life that were happening at the same time. All the while you have the Upper-Class English culture living their lives like in the movie, “Pride and Prejudice”. Set in 1790 a.d.
Who knows what the Chinese and the Hindu Indians were doing back then?

The Industrial Age – was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in in the world had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions starting in the United Kingdom, then spreading throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world.

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Driving toward the Arica Railway Station in Chile on a swelteringly hot summer morning, I caught glimpse of the wooden, 60-year-old, English-built sentinel car, registered 0261 and painted a bright orange and yellow, on display, making my way up the few stairs and crossing through the building to the platform, where I awaited the day’s first departure of the Ferrocarril Tacna-Arica Railway, scheduled to leave at 0935 for its trek across the border, by means of the vast expanses of the Atacama Desert, to Tacna, Peru. A tour bus, intermittently stopping in front of the station, disgorged some two dozen passengers who had equally scampered through the depot and immediately infiltrated the singular, stationary, museum-like car. Raising an arm and about to inquire if the group had been awaiting the morning train to Peru, a nameless face audibly corrected my thoughts with an exclamation. “This is it!” it had shouted.

In disbelief, I climbed the few steps into the wooden relic, fully expected it to remain stationary and silent, yet the “engineer” entered his own forward, side door, inserted a key, and the car’s deep, throaty, diesel engine pinnacled into chassis-vibrating life. Through the Atacama Desert in this, I thought?

Initiating momentum and inching past the platform on the single track before my thoughts could run to the end of theirs, this moving, autonomous coach would serve as both transportation and protection, as both engine and rail car. Paralleling the sand-lined Pacific beneath the sky, which had worn its flawlessly-blue morning ensemble, the coach followed the dust-imbedded track past the Arica suburbs characterized by their modern, low-rise apartments, behind which rose the soft, wave-like, tan and brown mountain silhouettes of the Andean foothills, which had been as dry as dust and devoid of a single green sprout of vegetation.

Seemingly trackless, the wagon, built up of vertical wooden planks and a slightly arched ceiling, penetrated the dirt-buried rails periodically flanked by small heaps of rock and sand, on the fringes of the Atacama Desert, the dust filtering through the open windows and leaving the eyes stung and the mouth immersed in sand. Behind, in its wake, rose mini-dust tornadoes and the just-covered track, stretching to its origin, somehow symbolic of the railroad’s history, which had equally stretched to its origin.

Peru’s only international rail line, and the second to have been constructed here, the Ferrocarril Tacna-Arica traces its origin to December 16, 1851, when a decree, authorizing the construction of a railroad, had led to a contract, awarded to John Hegan on August 6 of the following year. It had stipulated the import of 400 Chinese workers, usage of standard rail gauge, the establishment of minimum tariffs, and the transfer of rights to a third party. Hegan, granted a two million Peruvian peso advance for the project, had been required to repay it within a three-year period at a 4.5-percent interest rate.

The line, completed in 1855, had stretched 62 kilometers at a 1.455-millimeter gauge, constructed of 60 pounds-per-yard of rail fastened to quebracho wood ties, and had encompassed the six stations of Tacna, Kilometro 42, Hospicio, Escritos, Chacalluta, and Arica, and had traversed five bridges. A 3.8-percent grade had been maintained between Magullo and Tacna.

Trial service of the “Empresa del Ferrocarril Tacna-Arica FCTA,” or “Arica and Tacna Railway Company,” had commenced on December 25, 1855, while scheduled passenger service had been inaugurated two years later, on January 1, 1857, with a fleet of five 4-4-0 R & W Hawthorn locomotives numbered 869 to 873, thus beginning its contractual 99-year period.

Because initial passenger and freight volume had failed to generate sufficient revenue, their tariffs, attempting to stimulate traffic, had been halved in 1859.

Although President Balta-mandated studies to extend the line to La Paz, Bolivia, would have been instrumental in troop transport during the War of the Pacific, the project had never materialized.

Two other developments had been considered: a 478-kilometer, eastward extension, contemplated in 1904, would also have taken the line to La Paz, while a 278-kilometer southward extension, from Arica to Zapiga, would have connected it to the Chilean railway system, but Chile’s then current occupation of the territory had otherwise deterred both efforts.

Several additional steam locomotives had been instrumental in maintaining service, inclusive of both a Morro and a Tacura 2-6-0 Rogers and later-model 4-4-0 Hawthorns, all doing so during the latter part of the 1800s. Early-1900’s equipment had included 2-4-0 and 2-6-0 Baldwins of 1908, a 0-4-0 Kerr Stuart of 1911, and a C-C Alco Diesel of 1958, equipment built both locally and by the Linke Hoffman Company in Germany. Eleven rail cars had comprised the fleet by 1939.

Having been administered by Enafur, the Ferrocarril Tacna-Arica had been passed on to Enapu and ultimately the regional government of Tacna, the Arica railway workshops having been relocated to this terminus and ownership of the Chilean section of track having been retained by Peru at this time.

Although earthquakes and floods had destroyed part of the line in 2001, its reconstruction, coupled with persistence, had enabled it to celebrate its 150-year anniversary in 2006.

The rising dust tornado, revealing the sun-glistening rails the single car had just cleared, continued to trail it. Flat expanses of brown dust stretched to the tan-shaded, wave-like silhouettes of the Cerro Cabeza out the right windows. A man stranded here, on the other side of the single coach’s green, paint-peeling walls, would assuredly cause him to hallucinate those silhouettes into waves of water, I had thought.

Lurching on its lateral axis, the coach, still vibrating from its retrofitted diesel engine and clacking as its wheels rode the sometimes-disappearing rails, crossed the Chilean-Peruvian border, marked by a short obelisk, at 1000. The hot, dry wind carried not welcomed breezes through the opened windows, but parching steams of sand instead.

Passengers, negotiating the cramped car, which had featured a four-abreast, face-to-face configuration of bench seats, gathered in the yellow-painted, mid-vestibule whose sliding doors had provided egress on either side.

The track, along with the Atacama Desert which had supported it, seemed to stretch into dry infinity in front of the train.

Stretching, in fact, 600 to 700 miles from north to south, between the Loa River and the mountains which separated the Salado-Copiapo drainage basin, it extended as far as Peru’s north border and had been flanked by the Cordillera Domeyko in the east and the Cordillera de la Costa in the west. Comprised of pebble and sand, alluvial accumulations in the east and salt pans at the foot of the coastal mountains in the west, it contained the 3,000-foot Tamarugal Plain, itself formed by a raised depression running from north to south. A part of the continent’s arid shoreline, the desert had been created by the permanent South Pacific high pressure cell which had rendered it one of the world’s driest locations, resulting in an average rainfall of two to four times per century.

Now approaching Tacna, the rail car veritably entered an oasis in the desert. The Caplina River-irrigated valley, lining either side of the hitherto dusty track, had revealed lush greenery, which supported the growth of figs, olives, grapes, pomegranates, and prickly pears.

Tiny, cement block squares, beyond the greenery and no larger than tool sheds, marked the Peruvians’ individual land claims, location of their future residences, while even earlier claims had been designated by sheer lines traced in the desert, marks representing the foundations of future dwellings. To the left of the track, even electricity lines had risen from the dust, indicating initial fringes of civilization.

As the train continued its journey, yet a third stage of structural progress had been prevalent: desert lines had supported concrete walls and these had been covered with bricks, yet not a single human had dwelled in any of these pending, still roofless buildings. It had seemed as if the vast expanses had sprouted a soulless, still-uninhabited city.

Sandwiched between modern, dual-lane roads forming Avenida Cuzco, the track, thresholding Tacna, penetrated the city, its buildings becoming commercial and toting their purposes with signs, with each clack of the car’s wheels.

Piercing the silence with its horn as it announced its arrival from Chile, the Ferrocarril Tacna-Arica engine-coach threaded its way past palm tree-lined strips of manicured grass and fieldstone sidewalks, while cars and taxis, paralleling its path, moved within arm’s reach on either side. The spires of the cathedral, rising from the Plaza de Armas, loomed in the distance.

Inching through the clock tower-supported gate, the single, orange-and-yellow wagon screeched to a halt on the copper-colored rails which had multiplied into many and had cradled the steam engines, wooden coaches, and freight cars displayed by the Tacna Railroad Museum, rolling stock which had been instrumental in the Ferrocarril Tacna-Arica’s early history.

Descending the three, steep steps to the platform of the 1856 station, I glanced at the track leading through the clock tower gate toward the city and stretching through the sometimes buried no-man’s land of the Atacama Desert, across the border to Chile, and to its Arica origin, and somehow realized that it had connected me, two countries, and a century-and-a-half of history, all in a single day.

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Successful but unhappy.

As a General Manager of an international business hotel in central Vienna I had a great future ahead. This well paid work allowed me to drive a BMW convertible and having an expensive lifestyle. What most people did not know were that I was over worked, not happy and that I frequently suffered from ulcers.

I knew for sure that I could not go on like this and I also knew that to be able to live a happy life, I would have to follow my heart instead of my head. As everyone else I listened to what you are supposed to do, instead of what you love to do. My life was a mess.

Changing my life.

Finally I gathered all my courage and took the decision to make a change. It was a terrifying experience to quit my job, not knowing what would happen after. I sold my BMW and bought a motorcycle which I always had been dreaming of. I also took all my expensive suits and sold them at the flea market (some were stolen). I did not care as I started to feel better and I slowly got some of my life energy back.

My so called friends thought I was crazy and refused to talk to me anymore. How could I leave a lifestyle that most people were just dreaming of?

I later realized that they all felt threatened, as they new that they should change themselves, but couldn’t make it.

The love for my son.

I spent my first 7 months taking care of my very young son when his mother looked after her restaurant. This was one of the best times I ever had, being close to my child. Unfortunately my partner betrayed me several times and I could not live with it.

It was time to take the next step. I wanted to travel and learn from other people and cultures and I knew that I could not live in Vienna anymore. I had suddenly another life decision to take.

Should I stay with my son and be an unhappy father or should I move on and find another future that he eventually could share with me?

Following my heart

Again I followed my feelings that I should move on although I had a broken heart. My dream was to learn from indigenous people like the native American Indian, the native Hawaiian, Aborigines in Australia, Maori people in New Zealand and the South Pacific Island culture.

I wanted to get knowledge about life from these cultures and form a solid foundation for my own life and possibly for others.

I learned more than you can imagine and I was received with love and respect wherever I went. Finally I came to a small South Pacific Island called Samoa where my life suddenly changed.

A new life on a South Pacific island

During my 10 days visit to Samoa I met a fantastic local girl that I now have been married to for 14 years. She gave me another 2 children plus 4 kids that she had from before. One of my biggest happiness is a girl that we adopted who today is my oldest daughter.

After 14 years successful running of our small hotel plus a resort our life suddenly changed. Samoa were hit by a tsunami wave and I was separated from my family and had no idea if they were still alive. I finally found them running through the forest with two small babies.

Profound lessons of life

I suddenly learned how precious life is and how much you should value your family and everything you have. Life is too short to dwell in unhappy activities and things you do not enjoy. I felt very strongly that I needed to share this with you and other people.

Tourism came to a full stop and our income dried up as well. We moved away from the beach and started a new life focusing on internet marketing. With no money and a big family to feed we had many days when we were eating rice only, for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

This was the first time in my life I experienced what it means to be hungry.

The secret to health and wealth

After much struggle and incredible help from my family in Europe, our life got better again. More than ever I understood that I need to share my gained knowledge and experience with you and other people to make you understand how much you should value what you have and only involve yourself in activities that you love to do.

You are unique and you have your unique skills that you are born with, together with your unique life experience. Using your special skills and experiences from your upbringing, will make you do certain things better than any other person on this planet.

Be brave and take your first step in a direction that you like to take your life. You don’t need to quit your job but you sometimes do need to take steps where you have no idea about the outcome. It might look scary in the beginning but when it is done you are a different person.

Only do things you love to do and try to make a possible healthy living out of it. There is no other way to success and happiness.

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