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Hey -
I have spent the past few days doing nothing much except sit at the beach and play in the water. The first town I went to here, called Puerto Viejo, was a very touristy place. Their niche evidently was marijuana tourism, since I couldn't go more than a few blocks without hearing a song about pot or having someone offer to sell it to me. The Carribean coast has a very Carribean - and not very Costa Rican - feel to it. Most people speak English with Jamaican accents, and few people speak Spanish. The beach, though, is really pretty, and right outside my hostel was a reef with a few inlets that I sat in for a few hours.
Today I went to another town a few miles up the road, which my book said was much more laid back. This is true, but it's too boring for me. I went biking in the national park next door and saw lots of jungle wildlife (crabs and lizards galore) and did some more swimming. I had some pretty tasty Carribean food tonight.
Over the past few days I have sweat off about half of my body weight, so I changed my plans a bit and am heading to the mountain highlands a day earlier than expected. Tomorrow I'm going to a suburb of San José called Heredia, which is the tech capital of Central America and also Costa Rica's university hub. On Thursday I go a few towns over and am going to meet up with someone who's going to business school with me in the fall. She's down here doing a month-long Spanish program. Marc arrives midday on Friday.
That's it for now. Hope you guys are doing well and that your husbands each had happy Fathers' Days.
Matt
I have spent the past few days doing nothing much except sit at the beach and play in the water. The first town I went to here, called Puerto Viejo, was a very touristy place. Their niche evidently was marijuana tourism, since I couldn't go more than a few blocks without hearing a song about pot or having someone offer to sell it to me. The Carribean coast has a very Carribean - and not very Costa Rican - feel to it. Most people speak English with Jamaican accents, and few people speak Spanish. The beach, though, is really pretty, and right outside my hostel was a reef with a few inlets that I sat in for a few hours.
Today I went to another town a few miles up the road, which my book said was much more laid back. This is true, but it's too boring for me. I went biking in the national park next door and saw lots of jungle wildlife (crabs and lizards galore) and did some more swimming. I had some pretty tasty Carribean food tonight.
Over the past few days I have sweat off about half of my body weight, so I changed my plans a bit and am heading to the mountain highlands a day earlier than expected. Tomorrow I'm going to a suburb of San José called Heredia, which is the tech capital of Central America and also Costa Rica's university hub. On Thursday I go a few towns over and am going to meet up with someone who's going to business school with me in the fall. She's down here doing a month-long Spanish program. Marc arrives midday on Friday.
That's it for now. Hope you guys are doing well and that your husbands each had happy Fathers' Days.
Matt