Blogs from San Isidro de el General, San José, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean

===English version below=== We nemen afscheid van Dennis en vertrekken kort na de middag richting Quizarrá. Toch weer een lange busreis, het is bijna donker op het moment dat we in de dichtstbijzijnde stad, San Isidro de El General, aankomen. In San Isidro nog een overnachting boeken of het erop wagen? We nemen een taxi en gaan op zoek in het pikdonker. Eerst wel nog langs de supermarkt want in Quizarrá zijn er eigenlijk geen winkels. We leggen in ons beste Spaans uit waar we moeten zijn en wonder boven wonder vinden we Finca Granadilla Silvestre. God heeft ons bijgestaan volgens de chauffeur, Costa-Ricanen zijn heel gelovig. Wij bevestigen zijn oordeel, we willen de vriendelijke man niet tegenspreken. Cindy heet ons welkom. Zij is net als de eigenaars Canadese en heeft hier het voorbije jaar 3 ... read more

Back from my first trip to discover more about Costa Rica! Barb & I had a nice trip. We saw and did most of what we wanted to. To start us out on this four-day adventure we left Atenas on Wednesday February 2 in the morning by public bus, no chickens present, to head to San Jose. The route included going through Alajuela, where one of the two international airports is in CR, and the one I came into nearly one month ago. Once we made it to the Coca Cola Bus Station in San Jose we got a taxi to go to eh other side of the city to the Musoc Bus Station to head south to San Isidro. I took a few photos through the bus windows that I will post. They aren't the ... read more

Well 5 months later and it's official! We sold the house, threw out the shit and are moving in the beginning of January to COSTA RICA!! I am going to try to document the process for us, the good and the bad and also our lives once we get there. A little background, my fiance is Costa Rican, he has a house there which I don't really love but think I can tolerate. I don't love it because it is in a residential area that is not, well, let's say it is not what I am accustomed to here so it seems kind of shabby. By tico standards, from what I saw on my brief trip, it is lowish middle class. But the house is kind of private and set back from the main road (which ... read more

Can't wait to leave! Wow my first blog, what a way to start a new adventure. It's finally June, the month we leave for Costa Rica. I am starting this blog so that my friends and family (and anyone else that cares) can see where we wind up and the pics before we get home (providing my laptop makes the journey and we have internet access). I created a map of the trip up until we hit Uvita, that is as far as we have agreed on. I am going to CR with my friend Mary. Her original mission was to point out all the bad things. I am thinking on moving there with my fiance in the near future and am petrified! She knows me though and is well aware that I tend to look ... read more

We had the opportunity to visit one of the prettiest towns in Central America. I won´t tell you where it is on this world wide blog, find it yourself. But it is set in a valley at 2000 feet above the sea surrounded by cliffed faced mountains verdant green with primary and secondary forest. While we were there we took advantage of the closeness of the pueblo to the forest trail to do some of the finest hiking you can imagine. Midori and I spent the first day conquering hills to the most awesome waterfall I have ever seen in thirty years of travel. Midori was too shy even out in the middle of nowhere, but I swam like a naked baby there for an hour. Pure heaven and I felt like Adam must have ... read more