Today I got to the bus station pretty early to ensure I’d get a ticket. There was no problem whatsoever. It wasn’t full at first. I loaded my bag and got on. This bus was not the most comfortable and the ride was almost 5 hours! The bus I took from Limón was very modern [...]

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I slept much better that night. I was up fairly early because of that darn rooster, Mother Nature’s alarm clock. I got up and fiddled with my computer for a while. I left the room to get some breakfast. As I left my room, I saw an issue of PC Magazine outside my door left [...]

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We met Castor at 6:00 but it was pouring rain. We didn’t want to get in a canoe in the pouring rain. Another problem was that I was due to get on a boat at 10AM to catch the bus back to San José. If we postponed our canal tour much longer, I’d miss my [...]

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This morning I got up at 5AM to catch by bus at 6:30. I called a cab to pick me up from the hotel – I think I got ripped off. It wasn’t a big deal. I paid $2 instead of $1, but it’s the principle of the matter. I even asked the driver why [...]

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I started my day leisurely – I showered, had breakfast and then logged on to the Internet to learn of the plane crash in Queens of the American flight bound for the Dominican Republic. I was sick to my stomach. Of course, like many, I wondered if it was an accident or another act of [...]

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Well, my plan to sleep in was not to be because the Coffee factory called me at 7:15 to tell me that I could take the tour that day after all. So, I got up, showered, had breakfast and went to the Holiday Inn downtown to get picked up for the two tours. First we [...]

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Well, here I am in San José, Costa Rica. So far so good. However, it didn’t take me long to make a complete fool of myself – but more on that later.
I woke up at an ungodly hour on Saturday – 2:45 AM. Of course, as is my way, I didn’t go to sleep until [...]

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