Author Archives: David Dice

We will be home a week from today, and what a change in weather that will be!  This morning we left San Jose where it was clear and sunny, with a temperature of about 20C, and flew to Drake Bay … Continue reading →

We decided to take a taxi to the Cateratta La Fortuna, which is about 5 km away from where we are staying.  We hailed a cab on the street, and the driver, Jesus, wanted to practice his English, and told … Continue reading →

We didn’t have any plans for the morning other than staying here at the hostel and doing some reading.  However, there is a taxi driver who comes and visits every day and brings spoiled fruit to put on the bird … Continue reading →

Last night after they’d shut the gate there was a lot of yelling outside of “Hola”,  Since we don’t know enough Spanish, I more or less ignored it, until suddenly I heard my name.  When I walked out on the … Continue reading →

We took the bus-ferry-bus route from Santa Elena to La Fortuna today.  Though its advertised as jeep-boat-jeep, we were really happy to be riding in a 20 passenger mini-bus rather than on the back of a jeep.  The road to … Continue reading →

Todays tours at the Selvatura tourist park included the walkways with eight suspension bridges through the forest canopy, a butterfy garden which was indoors, and a hummingbird garden.  The walkway was about 3 km long, they said in the office … Continue reading →

Since our shuttle bus left at 7 am this morning we got up at 6 in order to have breakfast at 6:30, the earliest it is served here in the little kitchen  of this hostel.  It is somewhere around  5 … Continue reading →

Apparently our shuttle showed up at 8 am this morning.  The hotel keeper sent them away, but they wanted to come back at noon. Fortunately he convinced them that they had said 9:45 and that they had to come and … Continue reading →

We thought we would get up earlier this morning, and walk down the beach to the rocky point before it got hot, but we slept in.  We did walk there however, but the tide was in so that we weren’t … Continue reading →

We didn’t get going too quickly this morning, starting with a trip to the bank.  The bank had an interesting security system.  First they had a guard outside, who told you to take off your hat.  Then you had to … Continue reading →