March 14, 2009 by rbosinger
It has been about three weeks now… here is what we have lost so far…
- 2 pairs of sunglasses
- 1 pair of flip flops
- 1 Sony USB cable
- 1 cool hat I bought in Costa Rica…that lasted long…
- 1 mp3 player… destroyed by the ocean
- both of our water bottles
Only 50% of losses were due to drinking and recklessness.
Oh boy. Unfortunatetly because of the USB cable lost we cant get any photos off Briannas camera. This sucks because although I have the better camera, she gets the better photos…. oh well… stay tuned.
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March 11, 2009 by brianna
One sunny day in Cahuita, a small Caribbean town, Ryan and I decided to grab a bottle of vodka, some O.J and hit the beach. We grabbed our bathing suits, mixed our drinks and off we went. The ocean waves slammed against the shore and Ryan and I run in. Mmmm, salty. After a good swim, we go back to the beach and pour ourselves a drink in our canteen (so technically its about 4 drinks). It was a perfect day. We pull out our 20 dollar Mp3 players and let the sun dry us. I was so happy. I got up, started dancing around like nobody’s business. I was feeling so good. So good infact that my dance moves took control! I dropped to my knees to do my special move in the ocean when I fell and my mp3 player got wet and died instantly. But that stupidity doesn’t stop me, noo…Ryan and I decide to frolic in the ocean some more. I guess I wanted to look cool so I kept my sunglasses on but the waves got greedy and stole them right off of me. God dammit! The ocean just takes and takes. Well, that was it. We decided to leave..I guess. The next thing I know, we woke up in our hostel hours later wondering how we got there. The sun, tricky little guy. You feel good but don’t really feel that inebriated. Great times, but lesson learned: The rhythm really IS gonna getcha!
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March 10, 2009 by rbosinger
And then suddenly – as if something sudden had happened – we were on a bus to Cahuita (about 30 mins north of Puerto Viejo). It cost about $1.
I, of course, am looking like I’m going to kill someone because nobody ever taught me how to smile.
Cahuita is neat. It’s like Puerto Viejo but there’s less tourists and definetely no Spring Break type party crowd. Apparently, Playa Negra which is a long beach running along the shore here is suppose to be fantastico. The sand is suppose to be black and surreal. We rented bikes and checked it out, but it was all (for kilometers) covered in dirty driftwood and ocean debris. Apparently they’ve have some mighty storms over the last little while.
No big deal. We hiked a few KMs through Cahuita Nacionale Parque. We saw some monkeys and a few slothes. A park ranger even pointed out a yellow baby viper to us and kindly let us know that if bitten we would die in 15 minutes. The snake really didn’t look like much though. It looked like a yellow ball wrapped around a stick. I think he may have bullshat us. (more…)
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March 3, 2009 by rbosinger
Puerto Viejo is on the east coast of Costa Rica. It’s a serious surfing town. Unfortunately I didn’t go surfing. I couldn’t quite figure out when the waves were at there best, and there was only one spot where beginner’s were safe to try. Everytime we swam in this spot the waves would roll me around and I’d consider going to get a board, and then they’d die down and not come back. Oh well, they’ll be more opporunities, especially on Costa Rica’s west coast.
We stayed in hammocks for the first 3 nights, at a place called Rockin J’s. It was a bit of a “Spring Break” type party zone though. It was however only $5 a night for a hammock and a locker, and it was a really cool place. We had bonfires on the beach and got loaded. You could check out a guitar and bongo drums.
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by rbosinger
They have no street names in San jose, Costa Rica. Well, they do, but they don’t label anything and nobody actually knows what the street names are.
We took a death cab from the airport to our hostel downtown. Everybody drives like maniacs, but I expected that. Anyway, it was almost a 30 minutes ride, and cost us about $20, but it was defeintely the only logical way for us to get to the hostel. Within minutes I was chillin’ in a hamaca:
This is downtown San Jose? No way. This the courtyard of our hostel surrounded by a bustling extremely noisy city (but interesting). To keep the crazies out, they use razor wire.
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by rbosinger
Alright, I’m in Cahuita, Costa Rica right now and I find an internet cafe that seems to be managing to upload my pics. Posts are coming now…
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February 27, 2009 by rbosinger
To anyone who might be watching:
Although there has so far been internet cafes everywhere, I think this blogging thing is going to be too hard. The browsers crash all the time and the internet cuts in and out. I could write a pure text blog, but I’m having no luck getting pictures up on Flickr. I think I’m going to bail on this idea. We’ll see how it goes.
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