We had quite the day already! We were up 2:45 this morning after light sleep wondering if we were going to get snow delayed. We were fortunate that our plane made it to St Louis last night around midnight so it was there this morning for our flight. Flights that were cancelled or delayed were …
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Last Day
I’m finishing up my last day in Costa Rica. I’ll get breakfast in the university dining center in the morning, then head to the airport at 8am. My flight is supposed to leave about 2:20pm, and hopefully there won’t be any problems. My brother’s flight was delayed for hours and it took him almost 24 …
Spanish All Day
Well, I survived my first day at TEC! I did 7 hours today of intense Spanish, mostly about engineering and computer science. These would have been complicated conversations in English since I don’t know that much about the metaverse or semi-conductors, but they were especially challenging in Spanish. Even people here who speak really good …
Costa Rica Technological University
Yesterday was our last full day in Manuel Antonio, and essentially, my last day on vacation. We all took the day kind of easy. I swam a lot in the pool where I met a lovely family from Barcelona and a young couple from Los Angeles. She was an ER surgeon and he was a …
Nauyaca Waterfall Hike
Hello All: I did a super fun waterfall hike yesterday and this time, there was a professional photographer so I have some good pictures. It took about an hour to get to the Nauyaca Waterfall. It’s not close to anything, and the last part of our trip was in an open trailer pulled by a …
Whale Watching
I had a very fun morning whale watching. Unfortunately, I only saw the fin of a whale in the distance. In two weeks, there will be hundreds of humpback whales here, but right now, there are only a few. But, there were a number of super cute spotted dolphins and it was a beautiful day …
Manuel Antonio
Hello All: I’m currently back in Costa Rica for the next few days. Bill wasn’t able to come with me this time because he didn’t have time off work. We will be somewhere in January. Since Bill is not here, the pictures probably won’t be as good. He’s our picture taker. I am here with …
Boat update
So last fall I had taken the boat to be painted. It was a major fail. So it had to be redone. There was a lot of sanding to be done. The original color I had picked was a blue metallic but it did not get stirred well and all the metal flake was left …
In between Vacation Content
Hopefully everyone is doing okay with all this heat and here in Iowa, the humidity!! I thought I would share my current priority project as it is getting to a point where I’m going to put the finishing touches to it lower on the priority list. I got this boat a couple years before I …
Probably a return is in order…
Hello readers! We have made it back to the states, I am home and will be able to make my shift on Saturday. Emily gets to spend time down home for a couple days. Our trip was short to begin with and then another day shorter due to the fires. We probably would have been …
Traveling with Emily! 