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Costa Rica

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SJO to SFO

Planes, Trains & Automobiles As a refresher, our new & updated plan was to fly from San Jose, C.R. to LAX, wait 18 hours (overnight) then fly to SFO where we started our journey and our car is parked. Our plan was to hopefully catch a standby flight at

La Fortuna, Costa Rica

La Fortuna, Costa Rica

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

Jaco, Costa Rica

Jaco, Costa Rica

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

Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

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

Tamarindo, Costa Rica

Tamarindo, Costa Rica

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.

Costa Rica, 2022

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