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Travel Blogs from Tamarindo
Getting There
Edmonton - Calgary - Huston - Liberia Well all 3 Flights turned out to be suprisingly smooth, almost no turbulence for the whole time. I was pretty pumped on that. It turned out that they let me take my giant backpack as a carry on and it was a bit funny because it would only fit in the first class binīs. Edmonton to Calgary was no problem but the …
TAMARINDO, COSTA RICA
Wednesday December 20th, 2005 Well, here we are in a little beach/surf town called Tamarindo. It's nothing less than beautiful. We arrived in San Jose on Sunday afternoon and took the city bus into El Centro (downtown). It cost us about a dollar each. We immediatly got a place to stay (from our Lonely Planet Guide) called Pension Otoya. It was …
Things I Want to Remember
Things I want to remember:
Mi Amigos-Ernesto, Victor and Jessie- these were the 3 locals behind the bar at Bula Bula. I met them the first night I rolled into town and we were friends ever since. These guys showed me the spirit of Costa Rica and we hung out almost every night. Again, I learned that it has nothing to do with how much you have or where you live that makes you a truly happy, generous person, loving and ...
Thar She Blows!
... check email to confirm our plans for the next day and that could only happen if we could make it to the rancho (the middle building) or the north building. So when it seemed to let up we ran and found the rancho flooded, but stood there anyway to check our email.
After such a long and adventure filled day, it didn't really matter that it was only 6:30pm ... we conked out to the sounds of the storm ranging outside and just hoped we wouldn't awake to floating in water.
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I just wanna fly
... br> On the way back from the beach, we made a quick detour into town to check out our old haunts and pick up smoothies from La Mandrina. Happy kids! Good thing they got refreshed for the trek back to the house. The hills were NO joke, with Isabel stopping several times saying she just couldn't go on. Eventually we got back to the house and spent the rest of the afternoon at the pool, where the kids (and grown ups) worked out the day on ...