9 days in Costa Rica. I promise there will be no gigantic insect pictures this time.

Arrival and first days in San José:

Going out to TGIF, where the menu items are named in English and the descriptions are in Spanish.
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I'm in Vancouver now.

More pictures from Costa Rica in a bit, but first, this is the coolest photo I think I've ever taken.

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Haven't bothered posting at all, since my Costa Rica trip to date can be thus far distilled to the following ( Read more... )

After living and driving here in Costa Rica for a few years I have learned where the police roadblocks will tend to be, if they are out on that night ( Read more... )

So I'm clicking away at some 300/600, losing my ass off, when my roommate Micah says ( Read more... )

Flight was pretty much uneventful, pretty decent as 16-hour door-to-door flights go. Slept easily through the first flight, leisurely ate lunch at the connection, watched DVDs on the second flight. Wasn't until I got to Costa Rica that I had any hassles ( Read more... )

Walked with more energy, ate more, got some sleep last night, was generally in a much better mood ( Read more... )

The worst is over now, I think. We had the ceremony today. Pretty much like probably every funeral ceremony you've all ever seen: lots of sadness and crying and unsuccessful attempted holding back of such crying, chants and rituals performed by a religious figure, speech about life given by first-born son (my dad). Finally we loaded the coffin ( Read more... )