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Lost in the Valley of the Dinosaurs

Playa San Miguel to Playa Coyote - about 30 Km I woke around 8am and splashed around in the waves for a while. The beach was empty and I felt like Gilligan. I sliced open a pipa and filled my water bottle. The road was much flatter heading south through San Francisco de Coyote. Open cow...

permalink written by  chaddeal on January 4, 2009 from Puerto Coyote, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: The Great Pan-American Synchronistic Cycle Extravaganza Unlimited

Whole Lotta Up and Down

Samara to Playa San Miguel - 33 Km I considered a horse at first. Fancy visions of trotting into Antigua at dusk, spitting tobacco beneath a sun-bleached Panama hat. A bike seemed more feasable. You have to peddle the thing, sure - but its efficient and it doesn´t poop. All I knew was...

permalink written by  chaddeal on January 2, 2009 from Jabilla, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: The Great Pan-American Synchronistic Cycle Extravaganza Unlimited

Holiday Rush

The blight of tourism arrived yesterday. A week ago Samara was quiet, tranquilo - static pulse of seashore, the occasional motorbike, unseen birds singing Guanacaste sabanero war cries from palm trees, a tinny radio playing Marley from the bar. Now the town is roaring, barely enough room to...

permalink written by  chaddeal on December 27, 2008 from Samara, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: The Great Pan-American Synchronistic Cycle Extravaganza Unlimited

Mango Transmissions from Starfruit Satellites

It was love right from the gecco electric mango sunset framed with guanabana palm tree sway shoreglow strawhut cabiñas flicker to life wise-eyed old man chases sea foam creates galaxies with the gushing cosmic OH of a didgeridoo quetzal end all iguana monkey round...

permalink written by  chaddeal on December 18, 2008 from Samara, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: The Great Pan-American Synchronistic Cycle Extravaganza Unlimited

Mango Bridge

Chicken dangles from bits of string a crocodile looks on, grinning juvenile cackles of glee resound as the lizard troll splashes madly after phantom feasts just downstream, a fat mother bathes her babies in the creek without interest.

permalink written by  chaddeal on December 17, 2008 from Samara, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: The Great Pan-American Synchronistic Cycle Extravaganza Unlimited

Hence the BBQ

I am living in la casa de Doña Cristina Castillo Carrillo. Everyone is fed here. It was sometime after midnight when a speeding car full of nuns collided with the cow. The sisters contacted the appropriate channels and within the hour the cow was being axed into workable chunks on our...

permalink written by  chaddeal on December 10, 2008 from Samara, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: The Great Pan-American Synchronistic Cycle Extravaganza Unlimited

Decompression

My first week in Costa Rica was a crude, improvised sort of acclimation process. I bumbled about Alajuela with a perpetual tell-tale mask of gringo-no-entiendo, failing constantly and simoultaneously at operating pay phones, using currency correctly, and putting recyclables in the appropriate...

permalink written by  chaddeal on November 19, 2008 from Alajuela, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: The Great Pan-American Synchronistic Cycle Extravaganza Unlimited

Day 1

Providence-->Boston-->Miami-->San Jose, CR-->Puntarenas, CR I took the 8:10pm Commuter Rail train from Providence to Boston where I was met by Jason--we took the Orange Line T to his dorm and then we hung out with his crazy roommates for a while. I was way tired so while they partied, I took...

permalink written by  seektruth2 on March 23, 2008 from Puntarenas, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: Costa Rica 2008

Day 2

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permalink written by  Ted on February 29, 2008 from Alajuela, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: Costa Rica

The Final Farewell

So here I am, back in Tranquillo Backpackers, immersing myself in frantically typing up my route over the past few months and trying not to dwell on the fact that I am again all alone and boyfriendless for at least the next four months. Boohoo! Tomorrow still seems rather unreal - South...

permalink written by  Alex Kent on October 27, 2007 from San Jose, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: On the Varieties of Nature

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