After a fun-filled day at the ziplines, and a relaxing session at a near-by coffee shop we promptly boarded our afternoon shuttle minutes before 2pm. We took a quick spin around town to pick up a few others, and within 15 minutes we were rolling out of town. The shuttle ride was slow and grueling. Up and down steep ravines on rocky and very sketchy roads (if you can even call them that). Worse than the roads was the high volume conversation that was taking plac...

Adios beach, Hola mountains! We had half a mind to be lazy and continue the beach tour down the coast, but in the end we decided it was a good idea to round out the Costa Rica tour with a trip up into the mountains... In order to get to Monteverde we left on the 7:30 am bus to Cobano to catch another bus to Paquera to catch the ferry to Puntarenas to catch the bus to Monteverde. The ride up the mountains into Monteverde is something. It's steep and windy and b...

We weren't much in the mood for a big travel day after our extremely cruisy days in Montezuma, and lucky for us we would be spared for another couple of days. Santa Teresa is just around the peninsula from where we were. It would simply be one bus transfer and Bam... We're there! We woke, like so many other days, and packed, then grabbed our bags and shuffled our way down the road to a new coffee shop that managed to not infuriate Adrian. Seated on the patio, wi...

In my last entry I began by praising the Central American bus system for being an efficient well lubricated machine: I rescind that comment wholeheartedly, as I figured eventually would be the case. On a map Playa Samara and Montezuma are very close...deceptively close. In reality the roads between the two are nonexistent or so bad as to be uncrossable in the wet season. Our options were: 1) pony up $100 for a 'direct shuttle' which is code for 4 hours in a cram...

Pura Vida! Welcome to Costa Rica... We executed the San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua to Playa Samara, CR journey like Travel-Ninja-Black-Belts. 5 buses and a border crossing with our longest wait in between buses being 40 minutes...when it goes like that, just as you drew it up, a long trip seems short and I begin to wonder why every other blog entry we write starts with us b****ing about some long, hellish journey. Not today my friends...nope, today I'm here to pr...