Travel day. Ugh. Up at 3:20am. Finished packing. I walked down our stairs just as the bus pulled up to Geoff. Yikes. Talk about on time bus service here. This first bus only drove us 1 hour & cost $10 total. Whoa Costa Rica, too much. Although the driver did have to cross about 7 river/creeks that were pretty full. I imagine it's an impossible drive in the rainy season. But it did dump rain on us last night so maybe they fill up quickly? We changed buses in the middle of nowhere because a local guy told me he was going to the same town as us so we just had to follow him. That always makes it easy & takes the worry off of missing our next stop. We waited at this junction for ... read more

(Things are getting a little out of hand on the journaling front, I've been spending far too much time relaxing & enjoying every moment rather than detailing it, so I am very behind in my duties. I've decided to do some days with just basic bullet points to help jog our memories in the future more than anything else. So, that's where we are with that....) Breakfast: Juice fresh blended (papaya today so incredible), eggs scrambled, toast, coffee. Translated for another couple about setting up a snorkeling trip today. To the dive shop. With Belgians again & another couple from Argentina. Our boat was pretty full with snorkelers that we ended up stopping at two spots before they finally got off the boat (why? I don't know. The first spot was so crystal clear, who knows!). ... read more

Up at 5:10 a.m. Excited to dive! Breakfast downstairs in the outside seating area, but under cover (I'm getting very accustomed to eating outside, it's really pleasant, especially in the mornings). They have the sweetest table settings & made very good gallo pinto, cheese, & eggs with onion. Oh, & really strong coffee. Yeah! It's so cozy & homey here. We walked down the hill to the dive shop that is on the beach. The dive shop office is the living room of Lin's house. He has his room, a bathroom, a tiny kitchen, & a back storage room. That's it. People live so simply with so little. I often wonder why we feel like we need to have sooo much stuff. After we got all our dive gear together we headed to shore to get ... read more

Make sure y'all are scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page now to see all the photos. The new & (not yet improved) Travelblog has placed ads in between blogs & photos. Everyone needs to make a buck so you can't really blame them right? Just an FYI. :) Instead of tacking on back to back long travel days we decided to spend the day here in Uvita & regroup. Plus Flutterby is really great & I could spend days here. And, my twin bed was really comfy, it was cool at night, & I slept great. We woke up & climbed the stairs out of our treehouse & headed to the kitchen where we found delicious, strong, freshly made coffee. We also were given eggs, bread, tortillas, & told to make whatever ... read more

Today up early to dive! We are super excited! Our first Pacific Ocean dive. Yippee! Last night the Howler Monkeys were hanging out by our room somewhere in the trees. We heard them howling all night. We didn't mind a bit. It's way cooler than bar noise or dogs barking keeping you up all night. We bought some delicious baked ham & cheese donuts for snacks on the boat (if we need them, you never know how hungry you'll be between dives.) That's what we've named them because that's what they remind us of. Sounds odd but they're really tasty. Then we headed to the beach for a cheap breakfast. Gallo pinto & eggs of course. I think I went a little crazy on the hot sauce because it came back to haunt me in the ... read more