Going to Arenal
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rowanfNote from yesterday (handwritten in my notebook):
Still moving a bit slowly in the morning but I could eat. Didn't carry my phone, so no pix. I went back to the cache and lest swag. I really need to remember to check that it logged properly. Packing did not turn up my missing money. I am so scattered I totally don't blame anyone but myself.
The Interbus shuttle came to pick me up about 2:40pm and off we went to Arenal. Two ladies fom Michigan, Jenny and Sue had been at Villa Solas down the beach. They did way more activities than I did. We picked up a couple from LA, Rachael and Max, in Liberia. So we were five plus the driver, Edgardo. The roads are two lane and paved but in very bad repair. People swing around and pass like crazy,going around multiple cars sometimes. Edgardo followed too close for my tastes but that seems normal here. Eeeep! And th it started to rain. So here we are on bad mountain roads (with washouts from last year still visible because they got excess rain last year) crossing creeks in the road. At first I thought the bus had no springs, but we eventually got to smoother sections of road and it easn't as bad. But sitting in the back seat it was so bouncy that my pedometer thinks I walked over 7.5 miles and climbed 326 steps. Very bouncy and my body is rather sore.
Finally, in the dark (no daylight savings here) and rain we dropped the ladies off at a lovely resort and then the LA couple at a rather rundown place on a back street. So my hostel in a shopping arcade next to the taco joint at least seemed better than that. A definite change in class from hotel la Finisterra though. And no volcano viewing in the rain.
I checked in and asked about restaurants and was directed to Lava Rocks Cafe a few blocks away where I had a lovely sea bass and vegetables. I am having trouble getting used to the exchange rate... So many zeros. It would be easy to scam the unwary or inattentive I think.
But there is wifi and I chatted with Kurt and David and skyped with Russell. Still feeling very connected.
Still moving a bit slowly in the morning but I could eat. Didn't carry my phone, so no pix. I went back to the cache and lest swag. I really need to remember to check that it logged properly. Packing did not turn up my missing money. I am so scattered I totally don't blame anyone but myself.
The Interbus shuttle came to pick me up about 2:40pm and off we went to Arenal. Two ladies fom Michigan, Jenny and Sue had been at Villa Solas down the beach. They did way more activities than I did. We picked up a couple from LA, Rachael and Max, in Liberia. So we were five plus the driver, Edgardo. The roads are two lane and paved but in very bad repair. People swing around and pass like crazy,going around multiple cars sometimes. Edgardo followed too close for my tastes but that seems normal here. Eeeep! And th it started to rain. So here we are on bad mountain roads (with washouts from last year still visible because they got excess rain last year) crossing creeks in the road. At first I thought the bus had no springs, but we eventually got to smoother sections of road and it easn't as bad. But sitting in the back seat it was so bouncy that my pedometer thinks I walked over 7.5 miles and climbed 326 steps. Very bouncy and my body is rather sore.
Finally, in the dark (no daylight savings here) and rain we dropped the ladies off at a lovely resort and then the LA couple at a rather rundown place on a back street. So my hostel in a shopping arcade next to the taco joint at least seemed better than that. A definite change in class from hotel la Finisterra though. And no volcano viewing in the rain.
I checked in and asked about restaurants and was directed to Lava Rocks Cafe a few blocks away where I had a lovely sea bass and vegetables. I am having trouble getting used to the exchange rate... So many zeros. It would be easy to scam the unwary or inattentive I think.
But there is wifi and I chatted with Kurt and David and skyped with Russell. Still feeling very connected.
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