Zullymar Hotel Tamarindo

... better after we smothered it in chocolate fudge icing. (oohh...my mouth is kind of salivating just thinking about it!) We took it back over to the hostel and it was devoured in less than 10 minutes, easily. We all sang ¨Happy Birthday¨and dug in! It was a family affair, for sure. It was Brenden´s last night, so we had to give him a proper send off (hint: when traveling, it´s almost always someone´s last night in any given place, so there´s always opportunity for a proper send off ...

... made for us and gets it spiked...its a party. Rafa makes us all DVDs, with pictures and the videos of our surfing, this note will come to play later. We all have a good time, there is a guy playing by the name of Tico Hendrix, oh now this guy is an entertainer, has more teeth then Gary Busey, but is quite funny, until he came over and yelled in my ear for like 30 seconds about I don't know what? We all sat there looking at each other, as this was part of his act? Then he came ...

Buenos Dias Chicas y Chicos, A Pura Vida Bonita to you all out there, I just finished up breakfast after a sweet surf session this morning, waves were not that consistent but we got some bigger waves than I thought. I started out with a sweet Thruster 9' 0 yellow, fiberglass, took it out before the lesson and paddled around and felt ok...so much lighter than the 10'2 i had last year. Carlos was our instructor so we talked about timing ...

After a day in Playa Coco, we headed to Tamarindo, it use to be one of the best surf spot in Costa Rica, now like many other Pacific Coast cities, big resort development has spoiled Tamarindo a little, but it is still one of "hot spot" for any traveler. The beach in Tamarindo is a long stretch of soft sand, beautiful and clean. The waves are not the best, but it doesn't stop many surfers to perfect their skills. Dotted with palm trees, it look close enough to ...

I have been in Liberia for approx. 12 days. I started my data collection immediately upon my arrival. I miss having my own house where everything is familiar. I miss talking only to the people who I want to talk with and deciding not to talk to people if I don't want to. I miss understanding everything. I miss being lazy when I want to. I miss.... The comforts of my own life. This is a mission, an adventure, something I need to do so that I can get ...

I had an early evening flight out of Seattle and my friend and I met up in Los Angeles. We had an overnight flight to Liberia, Costa Rica and landed in the morning. It seemed that just about everyone on our flight was being met at the airport, either by friends or family or by a rental car. We stood outside the airport looking for a taxi and finally one showed up after about a 25 minute wait. The time waiting at least gave me an opportunity to ...

Just a quick overnight stop here on the way down to San Jose. Passing through the Costa Rica border from Nicaragua was pretty straight forward and I arrived in Liberia around 5pm. There didn´t seem to be much to the place really. Costa Rica is the most developed country in central America and hence the most expensive, there were some good restaurants here and it was good to get some food that wasn´t corn based.

... to hear all about his family's history, because it's French. Like I give a **** right now!! Anyway, I pretend I'm really interested and all is well. The next leg of the trip is great, with a Costa Rican guy next to me who gives me lots of tips. I finally arrive in Costa and Ellitoh, from B&B La Familia comes to greet me. He is really sweet and really looks after me. I have a cold beer and go to sleep. By now, it's 1am. Ellioth is really proud because I am ...

... Santa. Rosa is pretty awesome also so I can´t complain, and I am cooking gallo pinto with her mañana en la mañana. So excited!!!! I´m writting the recipe down and taking it with me! We decided to go camping out at Majagual at Matilda´s, the same place I had been camping before. Maia had never been and it was definately fun to be back out there for a night. The only thing was that the people who own it were being very strict and unfun because they ...

... more chicken busses and another taxi ride to the deserted beach of Marderas. Here we found a little surf shack to bunk up in, but the staple diet of eggs and beans continued and our craving for chocolate was starting to drive us insane. Temporarily i managed to distract myself in the awesome surf and magic sunsets, but every so often got pulled back into reality by little mishaps, like the rental board getting whipped up by a gust of wind ...