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Published: September 10th 2006
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A TALL SHROOM!
I have seen big, now blue, but this is the tallest! Rincon De La Vieja 9/02/06 Saturday
OK then! I got to the destination, Rincon de la Vieja Lodge. Another old ranch turned tourist trap. Lots of open space here, horses, MORE yard geese!
website: www.rincondelaviejalodge.net/photos.htm
Its midday and the hammok is waiting for me.
Well, that was refreshing! No NOISE! My body went to sleep, kinda like your leg does, but my mind was aware of everything around. Could they be twins? Nice athletic, thin, blonde of course, but, not talkative.
Then, this place got full, all the other rooms were suddenly occupied.
Its about 5:45, the bar is open, but not the restaurant, Magdalina(Magda) is behind the bar.
A bus load, 19 Dutch, singles on a 3 week wirlwind tour, based here for 3 days. Robert stopped at the bar for a cervezsa... proceeds to tell me about all this. A few waters and a beer later...Dinner!
A buffet! Rice and beef tips, some good steamed veggies, with a white fruit punch.
Back to the bar, Coronas for $3+ and Hienekens for $2+....Go figure!
I waited for the Dutch to finish dessert / coffee, and perhaps chat with them, but seems their coordinator
Progress or more noise?
If this is going to be a Thermal Generating Station, say goodbye to Rincon hotel. wanted to keep to hear their stories.
..... just another gringo at the bar, watching geckos eat dinner, and flying beasts invade the bar.
21:45 I'm out-o-here.... Off to bed to adjust to a QUIET night, hopefully.
another day coming.
Rincon Lodge 9/03/06 Sunday
Its about 04:30 and people are trapesing past my cabana to the trail that leads to the hot springs.
Not me, so back to bed. (at least I think there were people out there...)
Now its 05:35, says the Timex, the sun has not come up, the eastern sky is lit up, enough to see the trail.
Sorry, I did not think to take a picture while standing out there, naked, at that time.
But I got a shot from the hammok later.
I got my butt-pak together and headed up the trail to the 'mirrador' or 'the lookout'. Its supposed to be a 30 min hike up the hill thru the dense forrest, again.
Yes, Sis, I did do it, ...... to see what I could see, ya know.
Well, that was a complete waste of time, energy, and anticipation! You ask, 'Why?
I'm at a sign that
My Log Cabin
The logs look like what we'd use in US as fence posts. all are cut the same size. says 'Lookout -->' and I am standing in front of an abandoned building...as I walk toward the blue sky, on a road, (better than the road to the hotel!), I come to a clearing cut into the side of the hill. Lookout, just like a place where people would park and make-out. ????
Toward the Northwest, with the East being the mountain. View? But someone built all this, and wouldn't ya know it...
there IT was...... an EXIT sign pointing down a road!
Yup!
I sat on an old tree trunk looking at the site. Someone spent some bucks to get this here! But, they appearantly gave up. ("was going to be an exclusive hotel, but failed).Why? because a ICE Thermal plant was going in just below!
I left my mark on the tree stump, NO! I just carved initials into the wood, with a nail file on my gizmo tool.
And guess what...I made it back to the Lodge just in time for breakfast!
Another buffet.
Hammok time! It seems that I can get relaxed enough for my body to go numb, but my eyes just keep popping open. Just don't want to miss anything.
tree used for practice
Tallest tree around with zipline to an oak about 100 meters to the right. The whole day is for lounging around the cabana, in and out of the hammok, trying to get caught up on the blog.
The Dutch have gone on a canopy tour, nobody around but the cleaning girl.
After a lot of typing, it was lunch time, so off to eat. Thin piece of chicken, rice and last night's veggies...another fruit juice, red...I also got a bit of flan for desert.
Then, Robert and 2 of the single girls popped out of nowhere, they didn't go on the tour(?).
Seems they want to hike to the mud pools, 4hrs and back..not me! (he did not ask) I've got more down time coming, plus the blog.
At 4:45, I head to the bar for beers. Yup, the waters I had all day just weren't cutting it.
The singles group came back, some of the guys came straight to the bar.
Dinner, 'The Buffet', rice, pasta, shredded beef(last night's beef tips!), and chocolate flan, didn't taste chocolate.
Back to the bar, Robert and the girls finally show up about 7:30 right at dark. We had some beers and he told me of the pools, says he did not get in
"because the water was dirty" (?)..guess he didn't get the picture... only the younger girl went in, He did not mind.
So after too many beers and cigs, 10:45, bar closes...lost my key, had to get 'securidad' to open my cabana, just to find it where I LEFT it.
Crisis avoided! off to sleep.
another day coming
Rincon de la Vieja Lodge 09/04/06 Monday Labor day!
Up by 06:00, got to pak it out today.
Today is clear, no rain and comfortable, @75 F.
Now, the Dutch are on their way to Manzanillo area for HOT & HUMID rest near the beach, not at the beach. Horseback riding and Mangrove siteseeing.
Laundry back, still damp. laid the shorts there; hung my shirts next to the glass on the East side window, got real hot real fast! WaLa! Dried clothes!
Note: ALWAYS shake out the garments before packing!!!
11:00 ish, taxi has arrived, a SEDAN, It had AC too, not bad! Stiil the road had tore that car up! As fast as he went down that raod, I can see why. What we call a 'rattle trap' or P.O.S. !
Appearently, a bulldozer had gone down and 'helped' the condition of that road, if only in some spots. But, Johnny Loco knew when to punch it, as we made it down in half the time it took my previous taxi to come up!
Off to Fortuna, Mirrivalles, a place called Centro Touristico de Termal Yoko, or the Yoko Hotel.
$65 and @45 mins later we arrived, I paid $10 for gas, almost there but we needed a brief Pit stop up the road....seems we both had to have a pit stop just as bad!
I was worried that he'd have scared IT out of me before we reached the hotel!
No website for Yoko Hotel
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