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A BRIEF BIO OF RICHARD KRUG After a stint at university (where I finally convinced everyone of what I had known since childhood: I wasn't cut out for academic life, except for the very, very extra-curricular side) and a 10-year career in the construction industry and as a private homebuilder in the San Diego area, I settled in Costa Rica 25 years ago. My love of diving and sportfishing initially got me involved in the commercial export of seafood from Costa Rica to the United States. I then set up a sportfishing/tourism desk at the Hotel Del Rey in San José 15 years ago where I found my niche. Over the years the companies I founded, Americana Sportfishing and Fish Costa Rica, have been among Costa Rica's most successful and best-regarded provider of fishing trips, complete fishing vacations and fishing packages in the country, averaging about a boat in the water per day. And the Hotel Del Rey, along with its bar that I designed and decorated on a sportfishing theme – the Blue Marlin Bar – has since become the best-known hotel/bar in Central America. I also wrote the fishing column in the weekly Tico Times, the region’s top English-language newspaper, for six years. Because I have no pension nor wealthy wife or 'companion' to provide for my old age, I figured the best thing would be to enter the real estate market. So I did, first as a broker, and now as an owner and developer. Aside from owning ocean view land in the rapidly growing Playa Hermosa/Jacó area of Costa Rica, I am co-owner and co-developer of the 62-acre Lomas Coronado project on the South Pacific coast. I also own Americana Real Estate marketing company, which over the past five years has successfully marketed and sold real estate throughout Costa Rica. |