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Cloud Forests, Volcanos and Waterfalls
... cool down! The cycle back was awesome... I didn’t have to pedal once as the whole way is downhill. It’s extremely fast and exhilarating, especially while riding a bike with severely malfunctioning brakes on a rough dirt rocky track.
In the evenings here, we had a few drinks or Leo beat me at chess.
We had one wasted day in San Jose where we misjudged (because of the lonely planet guide) the length of a bus journey ...
Just the way it should be
... wretched a road is, the more spectacular the destination at the end of the road will be. In fact, if the road runs out BEFORE you even get there, you can rest assured what is there is fabulous. We can say for sure that this is 100% true. The road to Blue River went like this: relatively good paved road, bumpy and not maintained well paved road, brown dirt pack bumpy road, and finally, completely horrible black volcanic rock gravel road (PS this ...
Costa Rican Triathlon- hike, swim, slide a volcano
... next to the barbed wire fence so when he started to slip he automatically reached for it and cut his hands all up. Poor guy. We make it back to the car and we are sopping wet. Amanda kept track on her pedometer how far we went and we went just over 6 miles in four hours. We get back to the hotel and shower and I go to the front desk to see what kind of deals she can work out for me to go to Baldi hot springs. I talk her down to $28pp including ...
Valentine's Day - recycling crayons
At 1:30 the Kindergarten kids came in. This week they are learning the letter D and the activity of the day was digging for dinosaur bones and gluing them on to a Xeroxed skeleton. Bags of sand had been prepared, and seeded with handfuls of penne pasta. Each child was to find 15, and then glue them. Dirty process, but they loved it. Meradith used the term "archeological dig" with them.
I gave them a candy ...
Volcano's and Natural Hot Springs!
This is a top pick!
... in the wet season, right? It started with a gentle spit and ended in a down pour that lasted over 10 hrs. Fortunately, we were off to the Tabacon Hot spring.
Tabacon Hot springs is named after the former village (that was destroyed in the eruption) and the first natural hot spring. The spring is surrounded by lush forest, rare orchids and a thundering river. The pools reach ...
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