Hotel Amon Plaza San Jose

... later navy. In fact a young 22 year old Nelson commanded a British force of 1000 men to take the fort in the 1780s. He succeeded, but disease, dysentery etc won the final battle and war forcing the British to retreat, well the 10 of them that were left.<br><br>After a couple of nights, I was back on a boat heading to San Carlos, to take another boat down the Rio Frio to Los Chiles and the border with Costa Rica. I had 30 minutes to clear immigration and ...

... at the base of the volcano before returning to our hostel.<br><br>Thirty minutes later we were picked up for our Sky Trek adventure (the zipline canopy tour). I´m not sure what you think of when you picture a zipline, but I´m pretty sure this isn´t it. Picture taking a tram up to 3000ft above a lake to the top of one mountain ridge. Then picture giant cables stretched out to a totally different ridgeline a half ...

... d have him put both in my car. I was determined to recover from the traumatic events of that day. Regardless of the money, which had become a concern, I was not willing be reminded of this incident every time I drove the car by seeing a vacant spot where my stereo had been. And the alarm would help prevent my new convertible top from being stolen. By then it was afternoon. The used top Rick found for me was unacceptable and the rains had started. Rick ...

... was thinking of some sort of compromise like I will teach 2 classes for the day, one for 1st through 3rd and one for 4th -6th. That way there are more people and it's more fun to play games when reviewing. Mom says it's an injustice to the kids that end up showing up if I don't have class. Some part of me agrees, but the other part of me thinks that I don't like when life isn't fair. I need to get over this, figure out some way so that I have a piece of mind ...

... insects in the forest. One of the most exciting things though was about halfway through the tour we ran into a pack of white faced monkeys. WOW! That was an amazing experience, I have lots of pictures of the monkeys and a couple videos. after watching them for about 10 min maybe, we heard the alpha male call them and all the monkeys quickly scrambled and jumped away. It was very cool. We also saw a very poisonous spider that was about as big ...

... arrive to nest or even walk on the beach, this is termed the "arribada" or the "arrival" in Ingles. The arribadas last anywhere from 3 to 7 days with peak turtle arrival at high tides. We were picked up at around 9 pm by our driver Abel who runs this excursion and he informed us that we would have to cross 2 rivers and that the journey would involve a vehicle change in order to reach Ostional wildlife reserve.  Within 15 minutes we reached the first river Nosara and ...

... advertisements, which would probably annoy me if it happened in Boston, but I just feel so mellow here. There are no traffic lights, and the red octagonal signs printed with the word "Alto" are seen as mere suggestions. Seatbelts also appear to be optional, lane dividers are nonexistent, and the ubiquitous van-swallowing potholes are sometimes marked by branches buried in the rubble. People are friendly. This probably has more to do with ...