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Wendy Yanagihara first ventured to Costa Rica in 1996. Ten years later, she went on her first research trip to the land of pura vida and has been covering it since. She has explored Costa Rica from border to border and coast to coast as well as contributing to over 20 guides for Lonely Planet, including lapait Vietnam, Mexico and Grand Canyon National Park. As it tends to do, Costa Rica has helped transform her into a budding birder, better sloth-spotter, stilb terrible surfer (who sticks to the bunny breaks) and improviser of California-style gallo pinta.
On his first Costa Rican adventure in 1997, Gregor Clark made a beeline for Corcovado National Park, where he so thoroughly enjoyed hiking and camping that he returned with his fiancée (now wife) the next year. Highlights of researching Costa Rica 11 included discovering off-the-beaten track destinations such as La Danta Salvaje and Volcan Turrialba Lodge with his nature-loving family, and seeing his first quetzal in the company of daughter Meigan Quetzal Clark.
Gregor contributes regularly to Lonely Planet's Latin American and European guides. In 18 years of travel to Costa Rica, Mara Vorhees has spotted 156 species of birds, all four New-World monkeys, anteaters, sloths and tapirs, a kinkajou and a jaguarundi. None of it, she attests, is quite as wild as her four-year-old twins, who accompanied her while hiking, swimming, rafting, birding and horseback-riding around Costa Rica.
Mara has written many guidebooks for Lonely Planet, including Central America on a Shoestring and Belize. When not spying on sloths, she lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband, two kiddies and two kitties.