After we got back from our Sunday tour, we went to a Pollo Rico-esque place for dinner and got roast chicken and french fries to bring back to our room, where we ate and watched some movie, I can't remember what, and then played rummy, which Lisa and I tied (we were playing to 500, and our last game was 535 for both of us ( Read more... )

Poas volcano was massive and beautiful and cold, and we saw all sorts of lovely plants, like the spiny-leaved, yellow flowered plants called poas, after which the volcano was named, and massive-leaved plants called Poor Man's Umbrella. And then we went to La Paz waterfall. It was gorgeous, of course, and we took some amazing pictures, and even ( Read more... )

The NatureAir flight was really cool, actually -- little baby plane with space for 19 passengers. Jason says he'd like to do this: be a shuttle pilot here, or maybe in Alaska ( Read more... )

Wow, sunburn. All of us -- very sunburned. We had breakfast at the Anaconda restaurant, which was the only Costa Verde restaurant that was open before 2 PM (we'd had dinner there the night before, too). We went over there around 10 ( Read more... )

I came out here to read; that was the plan. I'd brought "A Circle of Quiet," a Madelaine L'Engle book I'd chosen for my students because I love it. But who can focus when there are billions of scurrying ants (not biting, just scurrying), tiny flitting birds, monkeys screeching in the forest, sight unseen? There's a six-inch lizard on one of the ( Read more... )