I’m Going To Costa Rica!
At last. At LONG last. I’m going to Costa Rica!
I’ve been planning this trip since I was 19. I’m 24 now. I’ve read every scrap of information about it I could get my hands on, but you know that old saying… when you have the money to travel, you don’t have the time… and when you have the time, you don’t have the money? ’nuff said.
I finally got a really spectactular deal on tickets (325$ round trip from Dallas to San Jose - including all taxes and fees), at a time when I was not insanely covered up with work. So I snatched it up. Arrival time: 1 week from today. January 19th, 2009. Length of trip? Well, officially it’s three weeks. That’s what it says on my ticket, but… those things can be changed, y’know… 
So far a rough itinerary is to land in Alajuela, then head for and climb Cerro Chirripo, tallest mountain in Costa Rica, from there visit my friend Cedric in Golfito, then cross the golfo dulce to Puerto Jiminez, from there walk across Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula to Drake Bay, then perhaps go diving on Isla del Caño, and from there follow the coast up to Puntarenas, perhaps taking some surfing lessons along the way, cross over to the Nicoya peninsula and visit Mal Pais and the caves near Nicoya, then cross into Nicaragua for a few days and visit Omatepe island, then come back to Alajuela airport via Arenal Volcano.
I’ve been brushing up on my Spanish, reading Dorothy Richmond’s book “Spanish Vocabulary”. Really good book, just what I needed. I read her book “Spanish Verb Tenses” about 5 years ago and it formed the foundation of a lot I know today. So I hope to come home fairly fluent. We’ll see.
Of course, an Earthquake just hit Costa Rica 3 days ago, 6.2 magnitude, about 10 miles from where I’m staying the first night. So I’m not really sure how that will affect things yet. Though from what I hear the shock and damage was pretty much confined to a small area near the epicenter.
Well, I’m taking my waterproof camera, and all my belongings will be in a single small backpack. So I’m going light, taking an insatiable lust for fresh fruit with me, wanting to learn about La Pura Vida, Costa Rican style! So don’t touch that dial!
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Natnee and filed under Costa Rica |
