 | Good-byes
2008-07-13, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Hi everyone! This will be my last journal entry for my trip to Costa Rica. I want to say thanks to everyone for your comments and encouragement. My time here has been more than I ever expected it to b... |
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| Campa Elévate
2008-07-01, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Good morning! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I know we certainly had a great one here in Costa Rica! We held a bilingual youth camp for the youth from the church in Tres Rios and the youth from ... |
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| Free days
2008-06-24, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Hi everyone! I hope you're all doing well and enjoying your summers. We've had several days off since our last team left, but we've yet to catch up on our sleep! Jaxon, Parker and Amy's son, turned a ... |
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| Tilaran
2008-06-19, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Wow! Where to start? We just got back from El Dos de Tilaran in the province of Guanacaste, which is about 4 hours from San José. The team from South Carolina left today as well, so it's somewhat of ... |
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| Weekend stuff
2008-06-16, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Hi everyone! It's been several days since my last post and we're about to embark on a three-night trip to Tilaran (about four hours away) so I figured I'd update you while I can. The last few days hav... |
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| Preparations
2008-06-12, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Hi everyone! I wanted to write a cool Spanish greeting to open this post, but this site requires all text to be in English. So, English it is... Today was a busy day because our first team is coming i... |
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| I made it!
2008-06-10, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | So...I officially arrived in Costa Rica last night around 9:30! There's a two-hour time difference, so it was 11:30 in the States. I experienced my first car ride of the trip on the way to Parker and ... |
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 | White water rafting the Rio Toro
2008-03-17, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: mira | | Today was the last of my adventure activities for this trip. I can honestly say, even before I started today I was exhausted, sore and bruised... so then I went an multplied the pain I was in.
The... |
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 | Goodbye Costa Rica
2008-02-17, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well, am now in Panama but I'll update with news on my new country soon. For now stories of my last week ....
On Thursday it was my last day at the Guarderia so I said goodbye to my little angels a... |
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 | Fame at last !!
2008-02-13, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Hey - one of my photos of the sunset at Playa Samara has been put on the home page of this site as photo of the day !!! I'm so proud !!! |
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 | 3rd or 4th time lucky with a volcano ?
2008-02-03, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | As my regular readers will know I have a love-hate relationship with volcanoes. Since Guatemala I have admired them from afar however I decided it was time to bite the bullet again and give them anoth... |
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| Some observations ....
2008-01-29, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | There was a guy called William Walker from the US who I keep coming across when I read about the countries I visit - apparently he wanted to take over Latin America in the 1800's, kept invading (unsuc... |
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| Message for my dear step-niece Amy ...
2008-01-24, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Don't even think about sweet-talking my mum into stories about me (I can feel my brother´s hand in this ....) - and Sarah and Gill (correct spelling) weren´t all that well behaved!
Just remember bro ... |
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| Callate !
2008-01-23, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Just a quick entry ... was having dinner here at the house and I asked Betty (my house mother) how to say "shut up" in Spanish. Both her and Oscar laughed and told me .."Callate !" and proceeded to te... |
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 | Just hanging around in the park ...
2008-01-15, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | This is more like it - I´m finding my feet now !
Got my routine sorted with the kids, I still spend about an hour with the 3 year olds in the morning which is about enough for me (and I suspect for... |
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| This is bloody hard work !!
2008-01-10, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well, I´ve done 3 days now at the day care centre and I´m knackered ! Luckily for me (and the babies) I´ve managed to avoid the babies since the first day. In the morning I tend to keep and eye on the... |
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| Do something that scares you every day !
2008-01-08, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Oh god, just finished my first day ..... After having had to get 3 different local buses into downtown San Jose and then out to Barrio Naciones Unidas I arrived at the centre a tad nervous.
I was a... |
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| I feel like a newbie again ...
2008-01-07, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Can´t find the exclamation mark on this keyboard so will use the asterix **
Well, just a short entry to let you know I have enrolled on my new project here in San Jose. I arrived at the language sc... |
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 | Just adding some photos ...
2008-01-03, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | I've just found a couple of discs of photos from Guatemala in my rucksack that I had forgotten about and seeing as recent photos are a bit thin on the ground I thought I'd put the best of the disc on ... |
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| First 2008 entry !
2008-01-02, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Hi everyone ! Happy New Year, hope you all had a good night on New Year's Eve.
I arrived here in San Jose (Capital of Costa Rica, you WILL be tested on your Central American capitals on my return !!)... |
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 | overloaded asian ferries
2007-09-02, san jose, Costa Rica. By: vorn | | met a couple of aussie girls on the bus/ferry/bus to ometepe island and we all ended up staying at merida down on the south west part of the island. was cloudy the next day so climbing volcanoes wasnt... |
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 | San Jose Cabbie Chaos
2007-03-08, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: stagejump | | Only a 6 hour trip from New Orleans, landing in San Jose for our first international trip seemed much quicker and easier than expected. Learning to stay cool under pressure outside the airport is a l... |
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 | My expirience in this city
2005-12-24, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: karinita | | Well I went in december 2005 with my brother, it was almost xmas, we where going to expend it on the travel, when we where at the airport there was this Costa Riccan guy who was so funny and nice to ... |
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 | Halloween, boats, and busses
2006-11-01, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: lindy | | So here I am, back in the country with no flags. Isn´t it strange, everywhere you look here there is no costa rican flag in sight...
Last night the hostel had a crazy halloween party which invol... |
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 | Boxes
2006-10-14, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: lindy | | Well, here I am, at Hostel Pangea in San Jose, Costa Rica. I got in late last night (flew direct, ya, that´s right baby...DIRECT) and they were there to pick me up and took me back to the hostel whic... |
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 | Just arrived in costa
2006-03-11, san jose, Costa Rica. By: bytes | | went to the local zoo, pretty cool, feel sorry for the animals cages so small... very cheap here....much cheaper than RIO!! |
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 | Back in the air... back home
2006-02-28, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: manana | | What is there to tell about this... flying... it is boring and exiting at the same time but just takes too long. |
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 | Bye bye Central America
2005-11-17, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: scottr128 | | So last I wrote I was getting ready to leave Nicaragua and head to Costa Rica for a couple of days and now I'm getting ready to head to Brazil and Rio de Janeiro. I fly out of San Jose on Friday afte... |
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 | Finally Here!
2005-07-01, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: planeteer | | It's hard to believe that just this morning I was in Chicago trying to sleep on the world's most uncomfortable bench, and now I am in San José, Costa Rica, in bed at the Hotel de Rincón de San José.
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| Adventures in Costa Rica
2005-07-17, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: ProfsBurch | | Adventures in Costa Rica
December 29, 2004 – January 3, 2005
Day 1
We relaxed in the President’s Club at IAH before our 3-hour first class flight on Continental to San Jose, Costa Rica, arrivin... |
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 | FINISHED WOHAAA
2005-07-02, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: madjulios | | I'm sitting in an internet cafe in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. It's a pretty western city and it's all a bit overwhelming because i´ve just come from three weeks in the country.
I just had... |
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 | last day....
2004-12-13, san jose, Costa Rica. By: quitobean | | ok its not my last day, its mylast night though so indulge me. we are back at tranquilo backpackers where i always seem to end up at the beginnings and endings of things important. tracy chapman sin... |
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 | Our First Day: Exploring the Capital
2004-10-14, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: nikmeister | | We made it! I haven't been on a plane for 8 years and was a little nervous, but it all went smoothly and now here we are in Costa Rica!!!
I must start this with a sincere ¨Thank You!!!... |
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 | Last 24 hours in Central America
2004-02-23, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney | | After almost six months in Central America, we had just 24 hours left in Costa Rica, what else was
there left to do but shop? We had tried a few of the
regular tourist souvenir places in San Jose wh... |
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 | Ram Luna
2004-01-21, San José, Costa Rica. By: chefortune | | After work one evening I headed off with Alberto, a political science professor who is a friend of a friend and one Tico who has helped me out a good deal since I arrived in Costa Rica. We drove to th... |
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| San Jose sausage dogs
2004-01-10, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: chefortune | | Spent Saturday trekking around San Jose, now that I have found official lodging and could be more relaxed about my comings and goings. I have taken up lodging in this old colonial style mansion that i... |
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 | new years
2004-01-05, san jose, Costa Rica. By: quitobean | | its been a wild ride.... welcome to the next year of your life. today my friends the british boys and i got into san jose from mastatal.... a long and bumpy road but an adventure that i cant wait to ... |
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 | Ciao Central America
2003-03-31, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: craigvern | | Hello friends and Family, and Goodbye Central America.
Costa Rica is an interesting and beautiful place – Pura Vida (Pure Life) as they describe the country and people in it. Covering only 0.03% o... |
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 | CarNOvalle
2003-02-28, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: stefnflo | | We had planned to visit San Jose for carnaval, and had adjusted our scheme to reach San Jose before the first of march. Whole South America and Panama are celebrating it at this date, and we had asked... |
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| Houston, we HAD a problem
2003-01-05, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: stefnflo | | But life is very good now!
We knocked all the problems down, and are back in the good ol travelfever.
After Houston (where we slept in the Holiday Inn paid by Continental, we went to San Jose in t... |
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 | Too much barbed wire
2002-03-27, San José, Costa Rica. By: nsuffield | | After flying via LA and spending a lovely day at Venice Beach and in Santa Monica, we arrived in Costa Rica. As always when we get to the big cities, we spent our days running errands. Here though we ... |
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