many of you have been asking so yes, we plan on posting pictures tomorrow. The transportation has taken up a lot more of our time than before (the journey IZZ the experience!) so we dont have as much time. Plus its a lot hotter so I find myself sitting in my air conditioned hotel room when I get a second. lame a blogger...
Anyway... from where Cathleen left at a Nosara... that was an awesome party and a beautiful wedding and we met a lot of great people! Nosara is a surfer expat and locals only kind of community. Feelin' irie, feeling like surfing, yes i am. Those waves for me (Rhonda) were a little big though, maybe it was the high tide but there were some tough looking high waves out there ridden well by some locals we met at our hotel, Casa Tucan, a great spot. our room was $65 looking out at the pool. Great bar and restaurant area.
Tuesday AM 5 AM to be exact, we got up to leave by 6 am and get on teh road to Monteverde, a 5 hour ride we estimated. We almost ran out of gas, the road signs are never enough in this beautiful country and so we underestimated how far to the next gas station. This country has maps that the rental companies give you that show you which towns have gas stations. Kind of spread out. On fumes, we rode into the end of Nicoya... happily to pay 80 dollars to fill up this SUV. Monster truck. But hey, we were happy in a about 2 hours when we were heading up the hill from the pan america highway up through Lagoste (sp?) on a dirt/boulder road. My 4wd skills were put the test (but for those in teh know, this was NOT as bad as the last 2 miles to Fuente!)... we asked a man on a horse for directions, a man in a soda (lunch counter) and a man and lady in a car... we bought avocados from teh man on the horse, still ripening as we speak! At one point, we were on the ridge of the mountaina nd looked down on both sides. Amazing. Cathleen thought we were going to fall off a few times. But not to many people were comgin down this road at 9 AM so we were lucky. At the town of Santa Elena, we drove into town and partked and walked over to the tourist office, and decided to purchase zip line tickets to Salvatore, the zip line through the forest, not just above it. Our friends Eva and Kevin had told us to check this area out and we did, took teh shuttle up to the zip line past some amazing views. You can kind of even see the Arenal volcano on a clear day. It was that clear for us yet. More on zip lines in the next post..... rhonda
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