Blogs from Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 59

Hola amigos! I'm back in Costa Rica, Playa Samara to be exact, for another round of adventures! First, a little disclaimer/apology: For all of you emailing me from home. .. THANK YOU. .. I love you for it! Please keep them coming! But, the internet service here is slow, slow, slow so I'm spending a lot of time/money trying to answer everyone individually. Hence, this blog! Please forgive me if I can't answer you each time you write :-) My story begins with my opting to book a charter flight (it's my dad's penny-pinching genes I guess) with a delightful little company called "Worry Free Vacations". I have to say that this is a misnomer if I've ever heard one! The worries began at DFW as I watched the mechanics working on my plane for an ... read more

Costa Rica (CR) went there with Jon and Aaron couple buddies from Cayman, who both grew up in S'toon. we spent 8 days i think in CR and it was action packed. We flew into San Jose late and spent a the night at hotel 10 mins from the airport and then got up early and travelled about 3 hours to La Fortuna (a town that sits at the bottom of the Arenal Volcano) Our hotel was about 20 miles outside La Fortuna in the jungle - it was a nice resort but i think there was only about 10 people in the whole place because it was off season and most tourists stayed closer to town i think. we stayed at this place for 3 nights i think. And as you can see we had ... read more

We left the glowing lights of Tama Gringo behind for the beach town of Samara. Yet another palm fringed warm water perfect beach, WHAT A CRAP LIFE WE HAVE. It was a small town where we found a cute place to stay with a few hammocks and relaxed feel. The idea was to learn to surf, but the waves were not playing along. So we decided to rather relax and eat, as usual. It is hard when sitting infront of the computer to actually remember what we did in some of these places, but it must have been good because we stayed 2 nights. ... read more

Bring on the white sandy palm tree swept beaches of Costa Rica!!!! After an altogether painless border crossing.....lets rephrase that....The best and fastest border crossing we have had yet! We arrived in the famously touristy town of Tamarindo. We weren't sure what to expect because most backpackers are not too complementory about the place...most call it 'Tama Gringo', which says it all! Besides the accomodation being on the expensive side (not set up for backpackers at all) as the town caters very much for the smoozy holiday. Mainly Americans flying in for 10 days or so to blow alot of cash. Ken had great visions of doing a week of Surf Camp at a great place called Witchesrock, but at well over $1000 a week we soon blew off that idea! Affordable if we were just ... read more

Today is Sunday and we are still in Samara. Originally we intended to leave yesterday morning, but were persuaded by our Tico Mom, Maricella, to stay another day and check out some of the beaches North of Samara. I cannot believe how much the family we are staying with has opened up to us. After she made us a bomb breakfast yesterday she suggested that we rent a Vespa, or scooter, for the day and take it about North to Playa Giones. Maricella called the shop to rent scooters for us, found out it was 30 bucks a day and that we would not need to return it until this morning. Then she packed us snacks and gave us her cell phone in case there was an emergency. On top of that she washed all of ... read more