(h2)Uvita small, tranquillo, surf(h2) I was told the best way to Panama was to go back to San Jose and then take the direct bus. Luckily I decided on the local bus, Local Bus means almost like a school bus,pulling off the highway often to go down gravel roads to service locals in the area. BUT CR is a small country. Even local buses can get me to Panama in 6 hrs. I got up without alarm at 06:15 s morning so instead of the 09:00 bus I was late but decided to scoot up the road and try for the [View Full Entry]

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Dec. 03 07:00 Day 7 of 3 months, I had my first bad sleep. The rooms here are really small luckily only one roomie so we had enough air, unluckily he went to bed early, he's still sleeping making it hard to find toiletries etc (dark). Dominical a small town between Quepos and Ubita... saw a bit of it and it looks great, the beach is big and right on the doorsteps of the big open air restaurants, motels, etc, wide and covered with palms trees and great surf. Not so touristy like Manuel Antonio. Today I had my back pack [View Full Entry]

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Last Morning in SJ found a great typical restaurant with a gracious waiter. Prices weren't too bad I think 2 large coffee ($2) and breakfast ($5) was ok for a very nice place. If the photos arent too well 'placed I think I need time to learn the set up here better. Also for those of you who clicked the Subscribe Button you may get a notice that a new report is posted when it is only me editing and learning how to set my photos correctly. I am sitting on the veranda overlooking the Pacific and the dense greenery ever [View Full Entry]

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Greetings to all of you old bloggers and to all of you new enlistees. Many of you have asked about the blog and why you haven't heard from us for so long. Well to tell you the truth I though that since we were both back in the states we would see or talk to most of you at some time durring the summer and Fall months. As it turned out, that was the case for most of you. It is now November 21 and Laura and I have returned to Costa Rica for the next 6 months. The 5th wheel [View Full Entry]

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Surfing Paradise! Yesterday Dana was telling me his ideal vacation spot would be in a remote location with rustic living conditions and few other people to share the waves with while surfing. Today we found it! Dana met a Swiss architect who was renting out a big house by himself for a few months and invited us to stay with him. Our answer of course, was yes! To get out there you had to sit or stand in the back of a semi truck crammed full of up to 50 people for an hour drive on the worst roads in Costa [View Full Entry]

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Up bright and early for our free breakfast of coffee and pineapple! very local! and to catch the 8am bus to Manuel Antonio. Once arrived, we wandered up to the entrance, passing a racoon in a bin (hahaaa) and pushing aside the guide offers. We were going to do this ourselves!!!! The beginning of the trail was a bit dissappointing as it was more of a road than a path, and there were telephone wires alongside the road - not very natural! Lots of tour guides were ahead, whipping out their binoculars and working up the tourists into a frenzy by [View Full Entry]

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Today was another day set to moving to a different area of the country. After another yummy breakfast of pinapple and coffee ( We are definatly in need of that cup every morning now!) we headed to the bus station to catch a bus to Puntarenas where we planned on getting a boat across the Golf of Nicoya. After 3 hours we arrived at our destination (along with Jo and Mark - the honeymooners who were also heading to the same place) but realised that the dock for the boat was the other side of town. The bus driver waffled something [View Full Entry]

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Had a very brief explore of the village this morning, brief as it´s absolutely tiny!! Just a crossroads basically with a few bars and restaurants and one club...Chico´s!! Would definately be hitting that for Tashas birthday evening extravaganza. A guide book even described the atmosphere at night as "banging". This we had to see. Em bought a book from the local store as her last one got RUINED by the stupid tidal wave (which we shall refer to it as), and the ex-book was no longer exchangeable at hostels as it was cover and backless. Grabbed Tasha from the hostel and [View Full Entry]

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So last night Tasha opened her cards and presents which was nice... got some money from Tasha, a bracelet from the Chapmans and a flipflop charm from Emily (very appropriate! :) We headed to the nearby Soda for birthday breakfast of Gallo Pinto ( rice and beans), sausages and eggs - definate hang over cure we feel! We then went to try and find this pretty waterfall we were told about so headed off down the beach with Sandra in tow. We soon found that we had picked up a couple of strays too. (there are soo many stray dogs out [View Full Entry]

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This is a special little place, in the undiscovered wilderness of Costa Rica. It is remote, isolated and has little to no development, and therefore, very much off the beaten path. To get there, after several bus rides, you take a boat to a small town as there are no roads. This tiny boat, so full that the water was only inches below the sides, did ok until we came out of the river mouth and into the open ocean where there were enormous waves crashing over us. The driver was pretty amazing and managed to get us there in one [View Full Entry]

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