I’m taking a much needed long weekend in Bozeman, Montana to visit my girlfriend. I’ll be spending most of the day tomorrow in airports (yay) so, to pass the time, I’ll be taking a bunch of pictures with my new phone and sending them to my flickr account. So, take a look at my pictures tagged moblog sometime tomorrow, there’s sure to be something interesting. :)
costa rica day 2
this is an e-mail i sent to my dad. more updates soon
We arrived in San Jose yesterday @ 2:00, rented a diahatsu scambler
(suv that's smaller than civic wagon) and drove about 120k to Fortuna
last night. The scenery was incredible as we passed through a national
reserve to protect whats left of the rain forest.
Now we're in Fortuna - I just paid 500 colones (about $1.10) for
internet for an hour - my spanish is so rusty all i could muster up
was a confused "computerdora?" but the guy at the desk knew what I was
talking about. We stayed at a really cool hotel last night - probably
the most expensive one we'll stay at all trip - for just over 12 bucks
a night.
The coffee is better than it was in Panama. Tastes like chocolate!
Its tough to get to a phone but the country is apparently very wired
because of an Intel plant in San Jose. (Chris just noted the computer
I am on has an AMD processor though. Only we would notice these things
in Costa Rica.) Everything on the computer is in spanish, kinda
difficult to navigate around.
Today will be spent hiking near the volcano that overlooks Fortuna,
and then to the hot springs at night. The back to the bars near our
hotel (Cerveza Imperial is $400 colones - bout $0.85 a piece). There's
also an interesting local concoction called Guaro that we had last
night - similar to a tequila shot but more potent. I don't know if we
can stomach more of that tonight. :)
