Blogs from Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 452

A Quick Note Regarding Pictures (or the lack thereof) Our hostel in San Jose rocks! It it huge... it has a swimming pool... a roof top bar/restaurant... and tons of computers with FREE internet. However, the internet is a bit to slow to load pictures. So, we gave up. Sorry about that. We'll post pictures for our Puerto Viejo, Puerto Limon, and Tortuguero entries this coming Monday or Tuesday evening when we are back in the land of COX High Speed Digital Cable. Sigh. I never thought we'd actually be glad to see COX. See you all soon! Intro to Tortuguero North of Puerto Limon, on a tiny slip of land between Tortuguero Canal and the Caribbean is the little village of Tortuguero, pleasantly situated on the northern tip of Parque Nacional Tortuguero in northeastern Costa ... read more

PSA Photos to be posted at a later date. Intro to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca Under Construction. Our Experience We arrived in Puerto Viejo in the early afternoon and immediately made our way to the cheapest hostel in town. They gave us a stand alone cabin/room with twin beds, a fan, and a light for $16 USD. The bathroom was a hop, skip, and a jump away in the main building. After settling in, we headed out for a late lunch. We found a local restaurant blaring reggae music and had ourselves a big Hawaiian pizza and mozzarella sticks. After a leisurely lunch, we walked around town. Puerto Viejo is smaller than we imagined. Really, it's just a little Caribbean village subsisting on tourism. Quaint, but in a cool, laid back way. Unfortunately, it was still ... read more

Hey all, Just have a minute to add some photos of the beach at Santa Teresa (Mal Pais) Not the best sunset we'll see here but pretty beautiful. It is amazing when you're out there by yourself, just sitting on the sand watching the sky change and the stars appear. Even the sand glitters at night.... read more

We never made it to the contractor, nor did we get to do any fun/touristy stuff on Sunday or any other day this week. Sunday we spent the whole day driving around Costa Rica looking for stores that we never found. It should have served as a preview for what lay in store for the rest of our week. Monday, we drove around shopping for all sorts of stuff, finding some of what we had been looking for to turn the house into a working inn. We also had our first Spanish class scheduled, but in true Tico style the teacher never showed up, and after a half hour he rescheduled for Tuesday. Tuesday I spent almost two hours at the government-run phone company working to change the phone lines over to our names. After waiting ... read more

I've just had the most peaceful and relaxing experience of my trip so far. In fact, this is the most inner peace I've felt in a very long time. I've had a good time in Costa Rica so far, and I come back from a nice evening and a nice dinner. I get back to my father's house and just walk out to the edge of the hill. I look down into the valley below and just see little twinkling lights of houses and streets. All of them are anonymous, none can be identified from up here. Across the valley, a long way away, the silhouette of the mountains in the distance is lit up by lightning. The lightning is silent though, too far away for there to be any thunder. I close my eyes and ... read more