El Sano Banano Village Hotel Montezuma

... waves and hung on the beach with the millions of hermit crabs crawling around.

Farrah showed up later that night after traveling from just across the Golfo de Nicoya. It was so great to see a familiar face from Boquete! We met there at the hostel Refugio del Rio and have kept in touch since. She's a southern gal from Texas, currently living in Austin (well, not currently, currently, but you know what I mean), and so far we've had a blast ...

... figured it was a fuel issue. Now, a few days later, we relize the problem was not Wesley but bad fuel. White smoke, which we were blowing, is a sign of too much water in the fuel. Of course we had to get the bad Diesel right before going over the Moutain of Death! Luckily Wesley is running fine now.

That night we parked in the middle of a pineapple field own buy yours truly, Del Monte. I never thought we would be enjoying Del Monte for it's beautiful sunset's!

... some more solid drinking!
After the bar I ended up skinny dipping with the cute German and one of the other girls came in in there underwear. Good times!
Wont say to much about the rest of the night, but all four of the girls are doing volunteer or community work in San Jose for awhile, so I am planning to stop there for a night on my way through to Puerto Viajo in a few days time.

2nd August
Up early, the poms had hired a car for a few days and ...

In Granada San Jos'e hadden we er helemaal geen last van, In La Fortuna waren er weer wat meer.....en hier zijn er veel meer....MUGGEN en ander ongedierte. We smeren regelmatig met deet en andere plaatselijk middelen en dat is op een enkel prikje voor Jan< Heleen en ik afdoende.
Margreet heeft echter meer last van ongedierte en word meer dan regelmatig geprikt....nou ja, er komen grote verheven roden vlekken op haar benen, armen en rug ...

Just a quick blog to keep you up to date
Had to change plans as there was no space at Sirena Ranger Station. Margarita was able to organise alternative route into Corcovado
Got Marvi bus to Sierpe. Stayed in good cabinas and had excellent meal in their restaurant

... im going to spend a couple days at another volunteer place. We shall see. I only have a couple days left because i come home on friday. So i got about 4 days. Hope everyone is doing well. Honestly if i didn't have a job lined up i would make Laurie quit her job and come live here because its awesome. But since i finally have a solar job I think I will love I have been looking forward to starting when i get home. Have a great day. Chris

... learning things about their culture, and learning together about Costa Rica. The local saying here is Pura Vida. Pure Life. I love it. It is so simple, so real. Last night we did go out to a bar (only the second time we have partied hard since I have been here) and it was so much fun. I danced...Kelly taught me some moves. In fact, there were 12 of us from Cascade Verde that went together...all of us dancing...all of us bonding ...

... and had such nice eyes! I didn't tell anyone but he tried to kiss me one night, although he was drunk and I was like um..no...haha. Oh..who else..my second to last night there two guys from Oregon came by. One of them I spent some time with, he made quite an impression on me after we talked late into the night, but I know it wasn't the same for him. He had a girlfriend he spoke highly of, I'm sure he was/is deeply in love and ...

... could hike back down in half the time or a little slower but it took us 8 hours to get to the top and the trail was super muddy so it took us 6.5 hours to get back down... the last hour on the trail being in the dark (thank God we had a lamp and lots of batteries, which we almost left at the hotel). We had never been in so much pain in all of our lives with everything below our butts aching with pain (especially our feet). But that night after the 14.5 hour ordeal we sat down ...