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Jan. 28/29 – Costa Rica

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Day 180/181 – We spent this Saturday in Jaco, a beach resort town that was having a big beach party this weekend. A beach volleyball tournament was going on all weekend and a live concert on Sunday afternoon. We came here to sell our surf board in order to get some cash to help with our shipping costs, and because we’ve been told there isn’t as much surf in South America. After accomplishing this task we spent our time wandering the beach and slept in a campground for the night. The campground was one big party! I believe there were people that never went to bed, the cars just kept coming in. It was impressive.


A big community of campers! A very great culture, even if it was noisy 🙂

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A river of Crocodiles

Today we are looking for a cheap place to shower, sleep, and use the internet 🙂 We are packing our bags for either a trip on the ship or backpacking our way to Chile. Henry even got his first bath since we bought him! We want him to look pretty for the customs officials in Chile!


A clean shiny Henry in Puntarenas!!

Jan. 26 – Nicaragua

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Day 178 – We took a day off from traveling and stayed in San Juan del Sur, which is just an hour or so away from the Costa Rican border. It is an attractive bay off the Pacific Coast, with mild waves, clean sand, and lots of gringos. This town just recently received it’s first bank and ATM machines, about 6 months ago. It is starting to boom, with gringo owned homes and businesses – watch out Costa Rica! It is a very nice, small coastal town, and I can understand why people want to move here. The land is being bought like there is no tomorrow. I just hope it doesn’t effect the locals in a negative way. That is the hard thing about development anywhere in the world, how do you keep the economical balance?


San Juan del Sur

Tomorrow is our next border. We will see how tough Costa Rica is on us. I have heard they are quite efficient and professional; I like that. Though I also heard I need the original title to the car, which we only have photocopies of – but we haven’t had any problems yet, and we are hoping our original registration and a nice border official will let us through.


The perfect sunset: pacific ocean with kids playing soccer on the beach!

Dec. 26/29 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Day 147-150 - We drove back to Todos Santos, staying at Los Cerritos again. We had to get back to Spanish lessons. While we were doing that, Peter explored the town a bit more and did some ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 24 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Day 145 - After a six mile jaunt down a dirt road, not as bad as everyone made it out to be, we arrived in the isolated town of Cabo Pulmo, where there are only radio phones, that cost ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 22/23 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Day 143/144 - This morning Jason and I got up at dawn to watch the big waves roll in. Today a big swell is coming down the coast and creating big waves. It was impressive to see, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 19/21 – Mexico, Baja

Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Day 140-142 - Today my brother, Peter, arrived at Los Cabos airport for his nine day stay with us. We were very excited to have our first travel guest on our trip. We drove back to Los ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dec. 7/11 – Mexico, Baja

Monday, December 19th, 2005
Day 128-132 - We stayed at the beach all week and drove into town for our Spanish class. The beach is free and it saves us some cash. Besides learning Spanish, our days were filled with watching ... [Continue reading this entry]