Blogs from San José, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 78

30 Julio 2006 ¡¡Hola, hoooola!! En fin, para qué excusarme, si cada vez que lo hago tardo más en escribir… Estos últimos meses he estado requeteatareada, aunque muy feliz y con bastantes visitas. Patrick abrió la veda cuando decidió venirse desde tierras del norte a explorar estas junglillas de por aquí. Hicimos alguna que otra excursión juntos a la playa (Malpaís), él surfeó, yo hice como que surfeaba, y lo pasamos en grande con una panda de malabaristas de lo más divertidos que conocimos. También fuimos a un volcán. El temido volcán Poas, situado en el Parque Nacional del mismo nombre, el cual había estado cerrado hacía 15 días porque Poasito decidió escupir algo, y que resultó ser menos de lo que decían. La verdad es que me decepcionó un poco de puro acondicionado que estaba ... read more

Mike and I arrived in Costa Rica on July 27th, tired from all the running around we did in the States during our last two weeks there but very ready to begin our new adventure. Our flight was due to leave Philadelphia at 6:30am which meant a very early wake up call at 3:30! Thankfully my folks drove us to the airport and saved us a costly cab ride. Once again, the airlines tell you to be 2 hours early for your flight, yet the lines are not even open at this time so we waited patiently, still half asleep until the US Air group arrived and opened up for ticketing. This time, we knew better than to pack our “extra” belongings in cardboard boxes so instead we had 2 very large roller bags, 1 large ... read more

The rafting company picked us up at 8am to head out and white-water raft down the Gerviche river. There were two rafts, and one of the guides spoke some english. The river was great fun - mostly class 2 and 3 rapids. I fell out into the river 4 times, only one of which was intentional. After rafting we got dropped off on the Carrera Interamericana (the main highway through central america) and we caught a bus to Paso Canoas on the Costa Rican border. Once we got there, there was a 15 year old who decided to guide us through the process and chat up Trish at the same time. There obviously aren't many NZers coming through the border crossing, as they had to ask around whether or not I was allowed in... From there ... read more

We had a flight booked to head out to Tortuguero at 5:45am, which meant being at the airport at 5am, which meant getting a taxi at 4:30am, which meant getting up at 4:15am - hooray! We had decided to stay another day in San Jose to try and get my camera repaired, since I didn't want to lug it around if it was no use. We tried calling the airline to see if we could change the ticket but had no luck, so we just caught the taxi out to the airport anyway to change the flight if we could, or, catch the flight if the ticket could not be changed. Fortunately the flight was easily changed and we headed back to the hotel, checked back in and went back to bed! We got up later ... read more

It was finally time to leave and and good chums Stef and Ang dropped us off at the airport at about 5pm. While waiting at the gate to fly out, I had a nasty surprise when I found out that after dropping my bag on the ground, my camera no longer worked! At least we still had Trishs camera that still took pictures but the LCD display on that was broken. Funny that I have managed to break 3 different digital cameras in the last 5 months... whats up with that... ... read more