Karl Kahler

Karl Kahler is a journalist, author and bon vivant who has been visiting Costa Rica since the mid-1990s. Currently the travel editor of the Tico Times , he was previously national editor of the San Jose Mercury News in California, where he worked for 25 years. He was born in Arkansas and has lived in Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Canada and seven U.S. states. His motto is "If I could be any other person in the world, I would refuse." He has two grown sons, a lawyer and an actor. He resides in...See more

Karl Kahler is a journalist, author and bon vivant who has been visiting Costa Rica since the mid-1990s. Currently the travel editor of the Tico Times , he was previously national editor of the San Jose Mercury News in California, where he worked for 25 years. He was born in Arkansas and has lived in Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Canada and seven U.S. states. His motto is "If I could be any other person in the world, I would refuse." He has two grown sons, a lawyer and an actor. He resides in San Jos�, Costa Rica. See less