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What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all round the sun. What a beautiful dream that could flash on the screen in a blink of an eye and be gone from me. Let me hold it close and keep it here with me. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and LIST every beautiful thing we see.

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route:

  • liberia
  • rincon de la vieja national park: look out hike
  • tenorio national park: rio celeste river hike
  • santa elena cloud forest: sevultura zip lines and cloud forest hike
  • palo verde wetlands: boat tour
  • brasilito and playa conchal

highlights:

  • enormous rainstorm hitting the roof at the la carolina ranch in the middle of the night
  • maritza wrapping her arms around me and showing me ever so gently where the sloth was
  • all the animal viewings
    • sloth
    • porcupine
    • ocelot
    • coatimundi
    • alligators
    • tons of birds
    • jellyfish and little sand worms
    • monkeys
    • iguanas
    • agoutis
    • frogs
    • baby calf
    • cows, horses, chickens, pigs
    • snakes (richard stepped on one)
    • tarantula
    • a surprise bunny
    • and more
  • the las pumas animal rescue center
  • the sunset in palo verde over the wetlands
  • the tarzan jump through the forest in santa elena
  • the firewood hot tub along the river at la carolina ranch that richard practically slept in
  • birding boat tour at palo verde
  • riding a zipline over the santa elena cloud forest
  • cazillions of birds flying overhead in palo verde from the bird island finale
  • the skies everywhere and the green earth and the white clouds
  • in pure darkness and a little afraid, standing at the pier at the palo verde wetland's pier watching the fireflies and listening to the millions of frogs. glad richard made me do it.
  • the giant shower in brasilito that adam and i could play in
  • the night tour and the guide's voice: the sloth...he is ahhhhskratching
  • nicknames: richard A+ for mapping, adam lady boots for his borrowed lady boots, and baby step for my small clumsy hiking abilities
  • funny moment when i had to ride with a beefy old man down one of the ziplines and he had to wrap his legs around me
  • playing the black ice "is it..." game with richard and adam trying to figure it out
  • 99.5 hits radio station "grab your balls, it's 99.5" playing all my favorite hits
  • the visible universe in the sky at night
  • our awesome car that took us down the craziest roads
  • sitting in the nature made hot tub at the end of the hike in our underpants in tenorio
  • blueness of the rio celeste waterfall
  • horse riding

lowlights:

  • the dog that gave me a dirty look!!
  • hearing grandma wright passed away when we arrived back in the states
  • the roads are rough
  • the crazy howler monkey that woke us up at 5am in Brasilito
  • breaking my camera at the hot tub (thank you to richard for loaning me his camera)
  • stinky sulfur
  • the hippies at the pension talking loudly and hanging outside of our room
  • injuring myself on the horse
  • the beautiful but sad trash bag forest on our way to rincon de la vieja
  • no veggie meal on plane but we worked it
  • adam's bug bitten arm
  • falling on my bumm on the rincon de la vieja hike...saved by adam
  • going down the wrong road on the first day but fixing it in time
  • itchy bug bites
  • getting locked in the bathroom at the palo verde research center. rescued however by adam and richard.
  • having a layover in the dallas airport overnight
  • adam getting food poisoning at chili's in the airport right before returning home

places we stayed:

feb 23 2009 ∞
apr 17 2019 +