Rancho Naturalista Turrialba

... separate change of clothes and good non-slip shoes, to sit down and have lunch with our guides and Ronald, not eating in separate tables, but altogether in one table. An unexpected familial friendliness and coziness that completed a great morning.


I definitely recommend Explornatura, it is a friendly, generous, patient, and laid-back adventure company.

Ronald drove my friend and I back to San Jose, where we’re greeted with torrential rain....

... outside. So allow me to regale you with what audibly took place: the Patron-effect wore off around 2:30 and from then on I kept hearing a noise like someone tapping metal against glass every so often, like every 30 minutes or so. No idea what that was. Then there were cars going by. A dog barking, a large dog. Might have been Kujo from the Stephen King movie. At about 5:00am people started coming and going. Then my favorite ...

... who was where??? I never even heard them return, which is pretty scary. Our room could have been ransacked and I would've slept right through it. Earplugs work!

We decided that we hadn't given the beach scene its due, so we headed South down the coast to take in a little more of the Pacific. We ended up in Domical, which is a surfing town. We had lunch on a slight cliff overlooking the ocean which had been recommended and it was ...

... at least partially with their survival as only 1% of sea turtles live until adulthood because of poachers or animals that steal their eggs from the beach or because they don't survive predators in the ocean. The hatchery must be patrolled at least once every 2 hours to ...

... morning was nice but we were glad to get to the farm. Grammy and Grandpa found the farm different than they expected, they thought that we would be in a banana leaf hut, but really it's a nice house and they are finding it very comfortable. They like the birds and flowers and butterflies best. The first day they saw a Toucan and a Blue Crowned Mot Mot and then a Morpho butterfly. They are also helping out with the farm chores. Grandpa really likes ...

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... a long day of travel we retired early and fell asleep quickly in the comfortable beds which were appointed with plush linens. It was clear that Peace Lodge was going to be a pleasant experience and a wonderful start to our 9 day Costa Rica adventure. I looked forward to the next day with great anticipation. Next post will cover day 2, La Paz Waterfall Gardens and Doka Coffee Plantation. I also promise to post my photos within the next day or two.

I gave my Powerpoint presentation on American music today. I was up until one o'clock in the morning finishing it, and I wasn't terribly happy with how it turned out. I didn't think it would be so hard to find pictures of the most well-known musicians on the internet, even sufficiently high-resolution pictures to go full-screen on a laptop, and I never realized quite how pitiful my pop collection was. Further hindering ...

... to take a wander around Turrialba - it´s a pleasant & seemingly quite thriving small town in scenic surroundings without many tourists. Friday was my whitewater rafting day and it was all very good fun , allbeit not particularly adrenaline-charged as the rapids weren´t that big and we all stayed in the boat (until it was time to swim) ... certainly nothing like as hardcore when I went rafting a few years ago ...

... back to Dan... She´s right. We´ll let the pictures do the talking when we get home. But these pictures are not highlights by any means, for any random snapshot we walk outside and take would end up just as marvelous. But we are lucky, no question about it. As for myself, I´m beginning to realize the bitterness and rough-around-the-edgeness that I have acquired the last 6 months or so. Most of this is from the MCAT (2 weeks from tomorrow...), and ...