November 13, 2014 La Fortuna , Costa Rica- Cerra Chato Hike This hill won’t beat me. This hill won’t beat me. Ok, that rock might, but that came later. We started hiking up Cerro Chato about two hours and 1 1/2 miles earlier. I know my friends are numbers people so I am just assuming
November 12, 2014 La Fortuna, Costa Rica – Chocolate Tour Our first organized tour of the trip was, appropriately enough, the Rainforest Chocolate Tour! How else would you expect us to start a world tour?? We signed up for it at our hostel (Arenal Backpackers Resort) before having lunch at a “soda” – a local
This is for everyone not familiar with the fabulous, one and only spiny fruit: the rambutan! Aaron had them first in Thailand and introduced me to them…probably via the Uwajimaya store in Seattle. We were surprised during our 5 hour shuttle ride across the country to see rambutan fruit stands along the road. In the
MACAWS!! We saw scarlet macaws on our very first day! Think about when the Blue Angels fly in formation…that’s what it was like. We were buzzed by a flock of big colorful birds. That was a pretty incredible welcome to this new place!! It’s official: We are really traveling now! It was one long day,
We’re only 1 week from closing up the house and heading to Atlanta! Then, on November 6th, the trip truly begins with our flight to Costa Rica!!! We practiced packing our backpacks today and, well, let’s just say that we seem to have juuuust a bit too much stuff. Time to pare down… who really