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Living Pura Vida
... back and forth to make sure everything happens according to schedule. It's all been on Costa Rica time.
It is a totally different way of life here. One of simplicity and actively leaving each day in full. At home, I try to live a pretty simple existence amidst all the distractions, emails, fast food and chaos. Here, you simply don't have the distractions.
I am already planning my next trip in my mind ...
Our first night
So after meeting the kids at the airport at 4am we flew to San Jose via miami, we were picked up from the airport and driven through the mountain range for 3 hours passing a town that is currently being rebuilt after being burried from an earthquake. We arrived in our town called San Miguel de sarapiqui it's about 2 miles long and we are all staying with host families. The first night was difficult as we got placed in our host families. We have 11 ...
Day 2 San Juan, and dental tourism
... have forgotten since we had passed it blocks ago. We only had to ask two more groups of people to find it!
Then the directions were 2 blocks east and 4 blocks south. Very ambiguous but we found it almost by accident in a very residential neighborhood.
The dentist was nice and the clinic was small. He examined his mouth and had the assistant mark down which teeth etc. Then he said he only needed an ...
Costa Rica's Capitol
... we made it to shelter in time along with 4 mounted police including their horses just as we saw the rain coming our way. It was quite cool to watch the rain assend from across the road, it gave us time to reach cover before it got to us. Once back at the hostel, we did a bit of research on the buses and found that it wasn't too badly priced and would go back tomorrow to book them. As we were going to be crossing into Panama soon, we thought we'd better get ...
Another rainy day
... strolled around the gift shop and the main lodge area for a while and sat on a bench under the balcony of the gardens entrance. There we got to see a Pizote!! (in the US that is a coati…the same animal we saw at Tabacon the first time we were in CR) He climbed a tree and went onto the roof to eat a banana. So that was an exciting site. We were just glad we weren’t off on the trail because if Jym wouldn’t have had that cup of ...
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