We are here! 13 hours of travel, and we arrived at Hotel Buena Vista in the hills north of San Jose. We still don't have any sense of Costa Rica as we made our way up the hill in the total dark. Our little white Daihatsu mini-4x4 was passed by numerous scooters on the way up. No street signs or addresses here, so we are utterly dependent on the GPS unit we got with the rental car!
What do I know about Costa Rica so far...
- So many kind, gentle, easy-going people
- Coffee is everywhere! There is a "coffee trail" here at the hotel. The harvest has already happened but Lucas managed to find a couple of red-ripe coffee fruits to put in his pocket.
- We are foliage heaven! Trees and plants and flowers and fruits abound. Here on the hotel grounds alone - coffee, ficus, bougainvillea, oranges, limes, mangoes, and a whole slough of plants that we think of only as "house plants'. That is just the start of our botanical adventure...
Our Spanish is coming back. Matt has dived into it head first. Good for him. Lucas, too. He is game and seems into it. His curiosity at this point seems endless...we've explored every inch of the hotel this morning (there are 25 rooms in the main building), the trails, balcony, new foods at breakfast (papaya and friend plantains - neither were a big hit). How fun to get to experience all of this with him.
Ok, the boys are ready for our journey today. No rest for the travel weary...5 hours out to the Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific Coast. I think the adventure doesn't lie in the scenery or even the destination today but in the actual DRIVING! Even the ticos talk about the crazy driving in Costa Rica!
More to come once we are settled out at the coast. Thinking about home still and all of you...it will take some time to get into a groove here...time to live "pura vida" as they say here.
lots of love! ME
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