Tuesday, January 6, 2009

San Jose...finally

30 hours of travel [horray for storms in the midwest], 4 airports, 3 plane flights and a shuttle that included a drive down a 5 foot wide alley with a slope of at least 70 degrees, finally made it to the hostel in San Jose! The hostel looks like a fortress with 15 foot high walls lined with barbed wire rings. But it has good views of the San Jose. I was gonna put up pictures, but I am a little delerious from being awake for 39 hours, plus, the computers are all locked in iron cages too. The inside is cool though with murals of gnomes! and crazy jungles all over. Lorraine and I wandered around the city for a while and managed to piece enough Spanish together by completing eachothers sentences to find the park and post office, buy stamps, get 20 pounds of groceries that won't fit in our packs and find our way back home. Tomorrow, we wake up at about 5am to catch the 6am bus to Nosara and 85 degree ocean water...

5 comments:

  1. Ria, be sure to take a photo of those gnome paintings at the hostel! dad

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  2. Woo hoo! so happy you're there and TOGETHER with Lorraine! now that you've gotten (hopefully) some rest---GET OUT THERE AND FIND YOUR ADVENTURE! Love you, P

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  3. You are embarking on your land adventure and I am now embarking on my BLOG adventure of living vicariously through cyberspace! Of course, Dad was instrumental in my preparations....by the way I did look at the moon last night! Good luck on the bus trip!

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  4. HEY RYE RYE,
    Apparently I am BLOG writer Impaired. After several attempts(and asking MOM for help) at writing on your blog perhaps this time will be the charm. I AM commited. Anywho.... I am happy to hear you and Lorraine made it safely to NOSARA , it is nice to be able to keep contact and hear about your adventure. Looking forward to your stories.... Until then,
    BIG HUG,
    LInda

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