Author: Rob
Rob
Rob is 49 and based in Costa Rica, after having done his fair share of Canadian winters.
Ten years ago, I was a 39-year-old guy in Windsor, Canada, slogging through a secure but soul-sapping government job. Divorced, no kids, and bored out of my mind, I was mulling a big life change – midlife crisis or just a longing for something more? I wanted adventure, so I did what a lot of single guys do: I turned to dating apps. No matchmaking agencies for me; I just wanted to chat and see where things went. I made a profile on Plenty of Fish, the OG of dating apps before Tinder and Bumble took over. That’s how I…
I’m Rob, a 49-year-old, Canadian expat from southern Ontario. And for the last year I’ve been living in a small village in the foothills of Mount Chirripó – Costa Rica’s tallest mountain at 12,500 feet, and, if you believe the new age hippies around here, a spiritual tuning fork for the entire planet. Bumble led to this place where everything is energy and energy is everything. And I have to admit, there is a solid basis in quantum physics for the idea. I’m just not quite used to the habit some have that, when you can’t put something you believe…