I guess a lot has happened since I posted last. We cruised around most of the virgin islands and hit a lot of the highlights that I only vaguely remember from our family trip down to the islands. I broke my camera and had to buy a new one..... and I bought a ticket to Costa Rica!
Jim's wife flew down and sailed with us for a couple of weeks.
I found a conch so I cracked it open and boiled it up. Not bad, but very tough.
We saw people kiteboarding at the Bitter End so I went to check it out. This old guy was about to launch his kite and we could tell he didn't exactly know what he was doing. After the guy launched his kite I heard him yell "'I would've voted for you if i was an american citizen"'. Turns out it was John Kerri. ha
He wiped out pretty good and they had to come get him. Very amusing!
On to costa rica. I've been here 5 or 6 days so far and it's been a blast. I flew into San Jose and stayed for a night in a really nice hostel. It's really easy to meet people in the hostels and I haven't actually traveled solo since i've been here. I left for Arenal volcano with Yohanus from germany and Seria from california. Seria has been here for 8 months teaching english so she speaks spanish fluently which is very nice. The pic above is a rope swing we found our first day at arenal.
Arenal volcano
Leona and Haley. Two New York Girls who i hitched a ride with to Monteverde.
Getting ready for the zip line tour in Monteverde
I've done zipline before in guatemala, but this was a whole new deal. They had one line that takes you a full kilometer over a beautiful valley. You can also see the ocean in the distance.
We hiked to this tree that was once strangling another tree. The other tree died and now you can climb up through the hollow area where it used to be.
Here is our current traveling team. Starting at me going clockwise...Eli from New Hampshire, Harvey from england, Haley and Leona from New York, and Judith from Holland. Really fun group of people. We'll be heading to the coast tomorrow
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