Tuesday 5.24 / NO PHOTOS to post from here. Internet prohibitive / primitive /3kbp sec.
I am still in Montezuma, Costa Rica. I have decided to stay here and rest for a few days. This is a sleepy little village on the pacific coast, out on the end of a peninsula. I drove down to Puntarenas and then took the ferry boat over yesterday. It carried about 20 cars with room for more. Three decks for about an hour – arriving in Paquera. Then 44 kilometers drive over more mountains. (there are mountains everywhere I’ve been.) Im staying in a little hotel just off the beach. I was given the choice of with/without air conditioning, with/without hot water. My room is $40us per night with/with. Not much to do here so I’ll stay and do nothing. Perfect pace. Wed & Thur. Are nothing days. Friday I will drive back to the ferry, then on to San Jose for the night. Saturday I fly home.
Today I got the perfect hammock photo, several beach shots and worked in a nap. (while shooting the hammock there were two guys chopping down coconuts. The owner told me it’s a hazard because if they fell and hit someone it could kill them. They chopped one open for me to drink the fresh milk. Im not starving yet!) Tomorrow I ‘may’ hike up to see the waterfall. I ‘may’ lay in the hammock with my book pretending to read.
I have no phone, no tv but finished book one today and started book two. I have done no shopping and frankly don’t know when I might fit it into my schedule…
Dined on lobster last night. ($13us)
I hope all is well back in the world?
Xo skip
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P.S. things you can’t see in photos but really need to:
volcano shots,
beach shots,
lobster,
hammock,
coconut,
me,
howler monkey,
the roads!
P.S.S. I got stopped for speeding on the way over from Arenal to Puntarenas. Just like a scene from a B movie. “you can pay me cash now or “have- a- problem,” lose your passport and be stuck waiting for the banks to open…” ($40us – no problems.) this all garbled between his limited English and my impossible Spanish. While he stands in the roadway. Cars zipping past. No problemo! He was super friendly and smiled and I WAS speeding. No ticket and his kids get new shoes. Doing my part for local economy.
