Welcome to today’s installment of the blog! Makes it seem like it will be exciting.
Hopefully you all are doing well. Christmas is almost upon us. I’m guessing it will be a slow relaxing day here. We have to see if things are going to be open or not. The restaurant we had the snapper at is, the waiters mentioned they have a lot of reservations. We have plenty of PB&J with bread we won’t starve and plenty of cookies just because they are good.
Seems like there is a lot I think about posting and then I get sidetracked. There’s been a lot going on. Tonight really all I’m thinking about is that we went whitewater rafting. It was a good time. The water wasn’t as exciting as the Arkansas River in Colorado that I did 8-10 years ago, but it was still a lot of fun. We never got dumped out of the boat so that was good. There maybe photo evidence of Emily getting tossed around a bit. We didn’t take our cameras out, there are a lot that get lost. The pictures are from the adventure company.
We met a surgical nurse from Waukon Iowa and her kids. Her daughter was wearing a t-shirt with the a Minnesota Scheel’s logo on it and I guessed even if they weren’t from Minnesota they were close. We talked with her some about traveling and Iowa.
For those that worry about the food choices we make and show pictures of, the food is very good and there are a lot of options when you are traveling. Some of the foods taste as they do back home, some don’t. A hamburger in the restaurant here at the hotel and other places out of the United States usually doesn’t. The one here tasted more like an Italian sausage or patty melt. The texture is a little off as it probably has fillers in it like a meatloaf. I don’t know if they’re spicing it up or stretching the amount of meat they put in it. You can always stick to chicken and fish, they don’t usually have too much problem with texture changes, that would just be the spice palette and most places we’ve been it’s actually very tame. Rice, potatoes and beans are also not changed much from back home. Most of the time if something is weird it’s the sauce.
For those who are not as daring but still would like to travel, if you pick larger cities to stay in you can find things that are more familiar. Today we went through Liberia and there was KFC, Subway, McDonalds, Burger King and Taco Bell. You can stay at a Best Western, rent a car from Hertz or Alamo that’s a Kia, Isuzu, Toyota, Hyundai or Nissan. Most vehicles are smaller in size, it helps most roads are narrow and very bumpy, they are heavily crowned so the rain runs off in the downpours.
It would take something away from being in a foreign country, but maybe it would ease the transition.
I would like to see inside one of these houses that are typical for Costa Rica. They look to be about 500 square feet or so. From what I can see through open doors is that on the left is a big open space and the right has three doors. I’m guessing two very small bedrooms and bath on the right and the living room kitchen share the left. It would be interesting to see it though from inside, it would seem cramped compared to home. It’s rare to see bigger houses in most areas.
The driver said there wasn’t much crime here, the news when it’s taking about crime is mostly about the drug trade so it seems like there is a lot but it’s not. I think that people have a lot of fences and bars.
We spent so much time on the road today that we didn’t do much else. We had pepperoni pizza here at the hotel.
Traveling with Emily! 