We're playing catchup with photos here. We got back from the Arenal trip around 4 and shortly after our Tico family invited us out the Quepos Festival. There was some live music, rides (bumper cars was the best) junk food, and bull riding. I'll let the captions and the pictures tell most of the story. The next day we had a 3 hour surf lesson and local surf spot that took us through some pretty interesting neighborhoods to get too. The waves were bigger than in Manuel Antonio beach and there was no one else but Nikki, me and the three [View Full Entry]

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So I have been in Quepos for about a week now and am really liking it so far. The first night here was somewhat of a problem for me, but ever since then it has been awesome. The first night was tough because my homestay was not exactly the safe middle class home that was promised by the program. The house was down a dark muddy alley behind the bus station and next to the junk yard. Not exactly the pretty Costa Rican scenery that they show in the guide books. Not that I expected to be living it up on [View Full Entry]

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Hola! Things are still going really well here. I haven´t been feeling great again this week, but not nearly as bad as last week. A couple of days ago I had my first agua pipa, which is the water that you drink from a young coconut thru a straw. It´s refreshing and sweet and apparently it´s a lot like getting a blood transfusion. Soldiers used to use it as an IV to regain their strength. It definitely made me feel a lot better. Oh, and one correction from my last entry: sloths don´t grow algae in their fur, it´s actually moss. [View Full Entry]

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Hola mis amigos! I´m finally going to tackle the travel blog thing, so let´s hope it works. I know some of you didn´t get the first couple of emails, so I´ll do a super quick summary of what you missed. Also, I´m having trouble uploading my pictures from my camera here, so when I get home I will set up an album on this page and on MSN. Oh, and I sent out a bunch of postcards the other day, but I didn´t realize how ENORMOUS the stamps were going to be, so some of the writing is covered up, haha. [View Full Entry]

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Well I believe one of the last things I left you lovely people with was elations about how easy it is to travel around this country. I spoke too soon as paul and i got in to the biggest mess just trying to get to a town that was a mere 80km away. i need to paint a picture here of exactly where this town is and why it´s so hard to get to in the first place. let´s just say that mr toad´s wild ride paul and i went on to get to that beach playa guiones is on a [View Full Entry]

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Honeymoon [View Full Entry]

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