Hotel Classic B & B Province of San Jose

... However, we still did.  She came out of the airport  and, of course, got harassed by men asking if she wanted a taxi.  She was trying to explain that shedding’t need a taxi because she was looking for her son when she saw Devin’shat.  We were very excited to see her and we quickly headed off for our first night.

In true fashion, it took us awhile to get out of the city because there were no ...

... from earlier?” This cup was even better! We asked her and she said this was from the coffee they grew right there in their own garden which was for their own personal consumption. Needless to say we somehow managed to get them to sell us a small bag of the coffee and are now up to 4 bags of coffee so far (and this was the best one.

We were happy to see throughout this trip that locals (Costa Ricans) are the owners of most of the hotels ...

Living in Costa Rica these five years I have learned much about myself, other people and the similarities and differences in cultures. Recently there was a survey posted on CNN announcing Costa Rica as the happiest country in the world. This was based on general contentment, life expectancy and ecological footprint. While there are ...

... but currently Nirvana and Suzi are in the states. They have been kind enough to open their home to us, and we are so grateful for their generosity. Atenas is a beautiful little town, and their home is lovely...they have two cats and a pool...and it is cooler here than the beach towns...so, it has been nice. Ok, so it is rainy season, and it rains everyday, but really, it doesn't bother me. There is also sunshine everyday! Mosquitoes, yes, I still ...

... when the 6 year old is there. That’s a bad example to set, so me and my closer friends didn’t participate – we just stayed with our snacks and the fire. We ended up going to sleep early because we were exhausted again – and sore from the long day.

We woke up early, once again for our trip of the day. We had breakfast and then left for the long day trip. We went horseback riding and fortunately my TA had Benadryl because I’ ...

... for a bow & arrow. First for making the bow and arrow you need to cut off a branch from the pau d'arco tree. Make sure it doesn't have any forks but it needs to bend good. After that, you peel off the bark. The bark can be made into medicine. No idea how you do that. They are using it on their sick cow right now. Second, you tie a string to one end and make sure it is taught and tie ...

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... that we were without luggage) and raced to the departure terminal. Once there, we discovered that the flight was delayed and we could have navigated customs with our luggage and all our rushing was for nought. To top it all off, we raced through the ariport only to board the exact same plane that brought us from Costa Rica (that's why the red-eye was delayed). Philip even had the exact same seat. At least we got some exercise ... Mandy's father, Richard, was at ...

... leaving Philadelphia. We had no idea what gate we were landing or leaving in and finding the information. US Airways also had eliminated serving food on their flights; at least the kind of food we were used to: free. So with rebelling bellies one of ran off to find food while the ran off to find our connecting gate. Fortunately US Airways came through for us ... we departed an hour late.

It had been a very ...

... See pictures here: http://www.tropicaladventures.com/galle ry.php?g2_itemId=2391 Our last party was hosted in the big Cultural Center of Bambu, also on the Bribri Indigenous Reservation. It was a rainy day and we seriously didn't know if we were going to make it all the way to Bambu. The small rivers on the way there were transformed into big ...