TO YOUR HEALTH: As soon as I got off the plane in San Jose, my sinusitis disappeared. Just like that! It is so wonderful to feel wonderful again! Pura Vida Costa Rica! Lou is still coughing but she says she is getting better.
TO YOUR LIFESTYLE: We left our quite luxurious accommodations at Ti-fakara Lodge, to move into a very humble Air BnB room with a typical Tico family. The eighteen year old daughter, who runs the listing for her parents, was leaving TODAY, to go study English for three months in Tampa. She was a real little sweetie. There was a big party last night celebrating her departure, so Lou and I didn't get to spend much time with the family. I wouldn't have understood a word- with all of them chatting. Come to think of it, they were just like our loud, Acadian families when we get together! Ah.... we Latinos!
TO YOUR COMFORT ZONE: Dare I use those words? We slept with the windows open, because we couldn't close one of them. We needed the natural air conditioning. Lou went to close the curtain and the whole thing came tumbling down. I laughed!We got it back up, while stumbling around in the dark. We didn't want to put the lights on and let more bugs in. NO mosquito netting! We were really roughing it. For sure Lou was WAY out of her comfort zone, but she NEVER complained. She took it all in for the unique, but NEVER to be
REPEATED, experience that it was.
TO THE TOPOGRAPHY: We are on our way in a private shuttle, with our driver Horacio and three young Canadian graduating students from Toronto, to La Sámara, a beach enclave. Can't wait! We meet Canadians everywhere. They got a 400$ flight with Delta, direct to Liberia. SWEETER deal than ours, and an even sweeter graduation gift! I flew standby to Toronto to visit friends, WHEN I graduated from UNB.
We have left behind the humidity, the rain forest with its gorgeous flora and fauna, for the dryer land and blue coastal vistas of the Pacific Ocean.
Thanks to all of mi hermana's hard work, research and preparation, we are getting every
thing in the way Ticos refer to as: BUENO, BONITA, Y BARATO!! Good, pretty and cheap!
Furthermore,I wrote this entire blog in the SHUTTLE! It has WIFI! How S-W-E-E-E-E-T is that?
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