Blogs from Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 99

Hi everyone, We have not updated the blog in a while because we were visting a place that didn't have the internet. To give you all a quick update, we had to leave Boquete early because Lucas got horrible alergies from something that was in the air there. The minute he walked outside he would start sneezing like crazy and his nose wouldn't stop running. So we decided that we needed to leave and headed back into Costa Rica. We spent the night in a really cute town just outside of the boarder called San Vito. The next day we headed to a town called Neily and spent one night there because we were supposed to take a bus early the next morning to the coast. On the way to Neily we saw our lives flash ... read more

Nous avons quitte Monteverde pour aller voir le volcan Arenal, un volcan en activite depuis 1968. Il crache des pierres et de la lave presque chaque soir et nous voulions aller admirer ce phenomene. Finalement, apres avoir passe 2 jours dans cette ville, nous n'avons reussi a voir le volcan que pendant 30 secondes, entre deux nuages...a croire qu'il n'existait pas! Nous avons quand meme pu aller nous baigner la nuit dans des eaux thermales et avons marche en foret (pour finalement ne voir qu'un paresseux et des dindes volantes, mais bon...). La premiere nuit, notre hotel a ete attaque par un ou des voleurs. Chaque chambre a ete touchee, sauf la notre et celle d'un autre Canadien...haaaa...le Canada veille sur nous a l'etranger! Le voleur a defonce des vitres, s'est introduit dans des chambres, a ... read more

So I asked around town in Santa Teresa where all the hostels were and came across Tranquilo Backpackers. There also one in San Jose, not exactly cheap but $10 a night on that peninsula was cheap. After I settled in I borrowed some books and headed out to the beach. For the next few days all I did was sit at this resort called Luz de Vida cuz they had the hammocks on the beach. There was never anyone there using them so there would be days when all I did was sit from 11am till the sun set sometime at 5am. Every now and then I would get up and get in the water, then back to reading, then taking a nap or eating my snacks. My god it was soooo cool, I miss it ... read more

So I get to Gary´s place and was surprised to see a tent in his yard and a small little house. After the small talk Gary takes me inside the little house and tell me that it only has a bathroom and a kitchen. The sink and shower (which was just the head) are outside and so is his tent where he sleeps. I couldnt help but ask then was the point of building a small house if everything was outside. His response was that he needed a place to store his surf boards. Hardcore. After the intro it really started to rain and I thought great, I came here to get away from the caribbean rain. I could see Gary getting cabin fever and says to me at one point if it stops we should ... read more

I had not visited Latin America since 1970. In 1970 and before I frequently traveled to Mexico’s southern Pacific Coast and to Guatemala. My means of travel then was the Mexican bus system and hitchhiking. I stayed for long periods of time and enjoyed it immensely. I painted many watercolors on these trips. What is Mexico like today? When I see it on the television news it seems crowded and overly concerned with making tourists feel like they are visiting Mexico but still sleeping at home. My wife Susan and I decided to fly down to Costa Rica and spend a couple of weeks on its Beaches and to enjoy its people and food. She had been there before. Susan and my daughter Casy Dare visited my son Davis, who was spending a semester studying Spanish ... read more