Costa Rica, 2022

In April, 2022, we headed to the happiest place on earth. Departed SFO 6:30pm Friday night. A quick hop to LAX to sit for 3.5 hours. LAX International terminal was a visual feast. Huge video walls, Gucci stores, lots of international citizens coming and going. A pack of

<- Previous: Costa Rica Arrival Day One: Saturday The drive from San Jose, C.R. (SJO) to Tamarindo is ~250km and Waze quoted 4 hours. The road was 99.9% two lanes and paved, but with various qualities. Its not a long distance to cover, but slow vehicles plus misc. construction really slowed us down. The drivers here are pretty fearless. They pass on double solid lines going up a blind hill all the time. Motorcycles just drive down the middle line weaving in and out of cars, narrowly missing

<- Previously at Tamarindo Day Four: Tuesday We drove from Tamarindo to Quepos, then to the small coastal village of Manuel Antonio. It was a long drive with slow traffic as usual. Kelley was still not feeling well and slept most of the trip. We checked into our Airbnb, a neat place with a partially enclosed front foyer. It was already dark, so we decided to order a pizza from the local El Wagon Pizza. It was really good! Day Five: Wednesday We arranged a guided walk through Manuel Anton

<- Previously: Manuel Antonio Day Five: Thursday Jaco was a fairly short drive. The road takes you through miles and miles of palm tree farms on both sides of the road. We aren’t sure what the crop is though. Arrived later afternoon and found our Airbnb. A hostel-like multi-tenant situation with a really steep ladder to get to the bed loft. But it was only 50m to the ocean and a 2 minute walk to town, so an excellent location. Sunset was just a few minutes away, so we sat on the beach and w

<- Previously in Jaco Day Seven: Saturday Saturday morning, we drove to La Fortuna. This introdcued us to even more varied landscape. At times, high elevation (3800ft +) where it was much cooler (70s). Our trip carried us across “Crocodile Bridge”. Arenal Volcano is near here. We walked around downtown. Wish we could have stayed longer here and explored more. It’s a neat place. Dinner at Inspira. Excellente!! Again, the service was impectable. Our Airbnb had a private hot tub outside and wa