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Here is a collection of pictures about stuff we've noticed about coming to Costa Rica.... read more

We drove to Manuel Antonia Park which is about a 40 minute drive. It's a relatively small park but one that I'd heard a lot about and a place we shouldn't miss. We hired a guide to help us see more animals and take us through the park. She brought along a telescope to see some of the things up close. We saw monkeys, sloths, a poisonous snake, some red eyed frogs (although the one I looked at through her scope just looked like a green blob on the underside of a leaf), and a type of racoon called a kudamonday. We don't have any good monkey photos from this trip...they're very fast and up in the trees. I got a lot of trees but hard to see the monkeys in the pictures I took. We ... read more

It happened again...our Bocas blog got published while we were editing but not sent to anyone. Click on previous entry to see it. We're coming home today!!... read more

We wrote a blog about our Quad tour but somehow it got published without sending out emails to everyone---it's still a mystery why but this is a quick update and hopefully you'll be able to 'see previous entry' titled Quad tour and the beach if you want to read it and see pictures. Tomorrow we leave this beach and drive and ferry up to San Jose where we'll stay in the same B&B we've been before. We'll then fly from there (in a little airplane which I'm not too excited about) to Bocas del Toro, Panama where we will stay for a week. Sometime while we're there, we'll post one more time before heading back on March 15.... read more

Six days in the mountains (Santa Elena and Monteverde). Now we're back at the beach and happy as clams...but we did have an interesting tour of an organic coffee plantation that we would like to share. There are quite a few coffee plantation tours apparently (most brand name..for their..coffee) but the owner of our Santa Elena B&B place suggested we visit an organic coffee farm where he said we would have a more personal experience and learn about how they did coffee. We were picked up at the Rustic Ranch motel about 8 am by a driver that didn't speak English but down the hill in the town of Santa Elana we picked up Jesus who was our interpreter for the tour. That morning the storm clouds seemed to be overhead and it looked like we ... read more