I'm back home! I was alive and kicking hard again at work yesterday already, keeping me away from my blog ( Read more... )

Not much to update this time around. Andrea and I are hanging out in La Fortuna, which pretty much got it's name put on the tourist path when the volcano erupted here in 1968 and continues to have minor eruptions on a daily basis, with rocks spewing out of the top of the mountain. Since then there's been an entire economy built up around this, ( Read more... )

I've been racking up milage on my shoes in the last 24 hours, which has been a fine contrast to cooling (or melting my heels) on Costa Rican buses. Andrea and I have done a twilight tour through the Children's Eternal Rainforest, a five and a half hour guided tour through the Monteverde Cloud Forest, and walking up and down the potholed dirt roads ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, Andrea, Brittnay, and her friends rolled into the beach/surfer town of Manuel Antonio, entering into the world of blue sea beaches, dreds, and wildlife. We showed up without reservations and due to the low season, scored beautiful, getting a room for six people con air conditionando, baños privados, aqua caliente, y un pool ( Read more... )

Wow! It'sbeen three months since I've written anything on here, though it's for lack of time and not for lack of content. I've been busy enough with my life that I decided I needed a vacation and lo and behold, ended up here in Costa Rica traveling here for eleven days with Andrea, who is here for the entire month of November ( Read more... )