Another weekend ... Another beach !
2008-01-27, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f

I´ve been to Costa Rica before.... for 2 hours. When I flew from Madrid I came here to San Jose and sat in the departure lounge waiting for my connecting flight to Guatemala City. I remember sitting t...

Day 15, Saturday, August 11th – Waiting for the Night
2007-08-11, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: kinghurley

We left the beach today, and were forced to think about a life outside of vacation again. Our group had voted to charter a tourist bus back to San Jose that would leave at 5pm. This meant we had a ...

Day 14, Friday, August 10th – Sailing, Sailing, Over the Open Blearghhh!
2007-08-10, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: kinghurley

We undertook our last real adventure on this day. Our whole group went down to the harbor at Quepos in the morning. We were going to go sailing and snorkeling. When we got there, the tour manager ...

Day 13, Thursday, August 9th – Fun in the Sun
2007-08-09, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: kinghurley

This part of our vacation was clearly designed to allow us to wind down, and I suppose many people consider laying out on the beach a very peaceful option. I myself must have descended from albino c...

Day 12, Wednesday Aug. 8th – Specific Pacific
2007-08-08, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: kinghurley

If there was one place I wish we’d have spent more time in, it was Monteverde. I certainly enjoyed the climate and its lack of snakes. I would have preferred more time to tour a coffee farm. We le...

And the epitaph read,
2005-02-08, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: ccraft

[If you'd like to see my travel photography portfolio, please visit http://www.pbase.com/ccraft/] I´m not good at math, but if bad luck runs in threes, I think I have one more near-death experience...

spinnin and spinning with the sunset behind me
2004-12-10, quepos, Costa Rica. By: quitobean

Had one of those days today where there is definitely something rumbling trying to get going, head out somewhere. An uncommonly restless attitude for someone with the ambitious plans of laying around...

On the Pacific Side
2004-01-12, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney

Although the distance wasn´t that great from Monteverde to Quepos, the change in weather and the slowness of the buses due to the road conditions made it seem like forever. Eight and a half hours l...

Goodbye Central America
2004-02-15, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney

For someone coming from a country that takes at least 5 days of hard driving to get across, it was a fun albeit dusty and hot experience to say Adios to the Carribbean and Hola to the Pacific in on...

Velas Bonitas
2004-01-14, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney

As Maya mentioned in an earlier TJ, ever since reaching Quepos, my eyes have been sparkling for a fishing trip, particularly offshore. However, the trips were way out of our budget so I was pretty dis...