Hostel Bekuo San Jose

San Jose

My son Michael and his family were vacationing in Costa Rica while I was in the Galapagos Islands. They were flying out on the 7th of June so I decided to make a quick trip to see them. We stayed at the Holiday In Express which is right by the airport - easy for their 7:30 a.m. flight home.

It was great to see everyone and the boys, Parker, Taylor and Josh, were full of stories about all the animals they saw: sloths, monkeys, macaws and crocodiles. They also went deep sea fishing an...

Despite the best warnings of the parinoid reteriee from Veagas next to me on the plane, I sucessfully took the bus from the airport to the city center and then walked the rest of the way to the hostel, making it safely all the way there.

I wandered through center city San Jose with Tony from Canada and William from The Netherlands. We checked out the market, sat in a public square to watch the city go by and found the bus station so I might find it tommorow on the way to my next destination, of Santa Teresa, tommorow.

Its a chilly morning in San Jose. The rainy season makes the weather a little crazy to me. I think it has rained about 90 % of the days I've been here. Right now, I'm a little tired and a little the worse for wear. They held a graduation party for us at my school, Maximo Nivel, but halfway through the party I took off because I was about to fall asleep on the floor. I haven't been sleeping enough for just about this whole month between busting my ass at school so I could do some other activit...

To be continued...

After two nights downtown, we were both ready to spread our wings and leave Segundo Avenue. We thumbed through Lonely Planet and basically let their suggestions guide us. Hostel Bekuo was one of the top affordable suggestions, and again, we couldn't be happier. Off the beaten path in a beautiful neighborhood lies Hostel Bekuo - www.hostelbekuo.com. We were greeted by Hieme, a twenty something Colombian studying Business Management. He showed us around the commons, and finally to our room with...

The trip down to San Jose was pretty uneventful. Arrived in the middle of the afternoon and the pickup from Interbus went well. Friendly driver, not much english spoken, but really friendly. San Jose feels like latin america. Not sure why, but it has something of the same feeling that parts of Rio had. Apparently its is quite a dangerous city - everywhere there are iron bars and barbed wire or razor wire protecting the houses, the shops, everything. Signs on the gate on the way out saying not...

After a rather trying day in Quito, we had a fairly uneventful flight back up to San Jose in Costa Rica. All our flights go through here, so we'll be back again to pick up our flight to Miami in a couple of weeks. We've left most of our luggage at the hostel and tomorrow morning we'll be up bright and early to head up into Nicaragua for 9 days or so...

Trip down from Nicaragua today went without a hitch. Definitely recommend Tica Bus in this part of the world if you want a smooth, easy bus trip. Everything is packed and we're heading out for dinner shortly. Have to be at the airport at 4 tomorrow morning - blergh! - so it'll be an early night tonight. Tomorrow we fly to Miami for our last 4 nights of freedom...