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Day 11 – Jungle Beaches, Swamps, and Monkeys
We said goodbye to Roberta and staff at the Hotel Casa Del Flores. I’d be surprised if there was a nicer place to stay in Cahuita. We parked the car opposite the empanada place, where, for a third day, we failed to buy any empanadas. They weren’t yet open today; yesterday, they’d sold out, and… Read more
Day 12 – An Unexpected Journey, and Back Again
Sarah had a plan. We would meet Jenny halfway for a passport exchange. I thought this sounded complicated, but Jenny worked out that she could get an Uber to Guapiles for $65, a three-hour round trip for her and a five-hour round trip for us. It also meant we didn’t need to drive into San… Read more
Day 13 – Seaside Stroll
Second night sleeping in The Dream House, and it began living up to its name. I had a much better sleep, waking up only at 5 am when the howler monkeys began their murderous racket. After that, a slow start: a bit of reading, breakfast of fruit (adopting the local ways), some rather dry pastries… Read more
Day 14 – Up the Creek with a Paddle
Another good night’s sleep. But regardless of this, I was awake at 4.30 listening to the sounds of the jungle, the grasshoppers in the background, frogs chirping in the foreground, then as the light gathered, the howling of the monkeys and the cawing of the birds. We tried doing an early morning bird-watching walk, but… Read more
Day 15 – Monster Truck Camping
It was time to say goodbye to Congo Bongo Eco Resort. Pingping sauntered over to say goodbye while we were packing. She had that look in her eye again. Like all her new owners, we were about to abandon her. She would get over it. We had a long drive today. Fortunately, we’d had a… Read more
Day 16 – Crater Lake Swimming and Crater Lake Camping
It would not be honest to say I had a great night’s sleep in a tent on top of a truck. The mattress was thin. I kept turning over to wake up bits of me that had gone numb. I rather wished we’d brought our padded thermarests from home. We both sort-of-slept until 5.30 am… Read more
Day 21 – Horse Ranch Cabin
Camping meant staying at lots of places with little ability to do any blog posting because nowhere we stayed had any connectivity. Yes, more excuses! Maybe this daily posting, as Jenny suggested, is too ambitions. Anyway, here is a post to reflect what we are doing now. We finished our last camp at Atenas, less… Read more
Flying
We flew out across the Atlantic, nearly to Newfoundland, and then down the Eastern coast of the States. Jenny spotted the Florida Keys. She could see the motorway that runs the length of the islands to Key West. Jenny had the window seat, Sarah had the middle seat, I had the aisle seat. This was… Read more
Planning
Luckily, we did our online check-in today. We found out that we’re flying from Gatwick rather than Heathrow. At least we found out today rather than tomorrow when we fly.Let’s hope some of our other planning has been better. Have we booked the car hire at the airport where we’re actually landing, for instance? Yes,… Read more