we are here and gone and there and gone again!!

So, we arrived in Costa Rica safely and the long day of travel with the layover did not discourage us one bit! Up to this point after 10 sleeps in Central America, we have officially visited or passed through countless cities, towns and villages by using different modes of transportation and in total have slept in 7 different hostels!!! It is taking a bit of trial and error in finding our groove with what comfort means to us but trying not to pay the price so to speak....we have had a few expensive lessons but were able to shrug it off easily especially considering the weather has been so amazing.

We managed to skip the major city of San Jose all-together, which was intentional and were quite happy to spend our first three nights in a city closer to the airport called Alejuela....from there we had our own guide Alfonso, who also picked us up from the airport, take us on a day tour of Paos Volcano which also included a visit to a coffee plantation and a traditional meal off the side of the moiuntain consisting of chicken, beans and rice with plantain and corn tortillas!!! YUMMY!!!

For those of you who don't know, we have what is very close to absolutely NO plan for the whole 2 months we are visiting Central America...we decided this was part of the adventure AND learning about eachothers capacity for patience along the way...so far, a few minor blips, but really, we are so focused on just enjoying ourselves and eachother and this time to explore, that it'll be hard for anything to get in the way of our good intentions.

From Alejuela, we decided to go south as we needed to seriously work on our tans! If we were going to try to blend in with the Ticos at all, we needed some work...so we set out for SurfTown in the beautiful Nicoya Peninsula. Bus-boat-bus and 5 + a bit hours later, there we were in Santa Teresa, ready to take on the beach and the sun and maybe some waves....

Hasta Luego for now...continue the updates when a fellow hosteler is not breathing down my neck waiting to use the computer!!!