24 hours later

I feel like i often write posts that are titled like this.

I've made it to the PRETOMA office!!! But seriously it was a 24 hour journey. My flight left LAX at 10:15 on Monday night and arrived in Coyote just a little before 10 last night.

The bus journey was an experience. It started off that my taxi drive took me to the wrong bus station, and I think totally ripped me off with how much it cost. So, I had to take another taxi to the right station and I found my bus but waited for 3 hours before we boarded and left. It was seriously the longest three hours ever!! I had been warned that the bus is hot and humid and usually chickens running around, so needless to say I was really confused when it was a charter bus with TVs and AC. It was dark and when I realized we weren't taking the ferry I was concerned that I might only be going to Bejuco, even though I heard other people going to Coyote. I just freak out easily in vehicles I guess, I even have a hard time following the GPS systems in the states because I don't believe them.

This is Luna

I'm in the office now. Have seen Lotti, eaten some food, waiting for Maddie so we can go over the goals for this year before I head into Costa de Oro.

Mom, I know you are always saying no more dogs but the PRETOMA office dog is really cute and she has bat ears. I might steal her.

 

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Greetings from the airport!

This is the beginning of my attempt to blog a little more than last year and provide as much information about what I'm doing in Costa Rica and and what there is to do in Costa Rica. Guess I'll be revisiting the trip with Courtney a little bit. In my attempt to blog more this year I am also going to include turtle facts and maybe other interesting things about other animals around Costa Rica.

All set to go with Mr. Bear

I'm also using a new blog app this year called BLOGSY. It has quite a few stars in the App Store so hopefully it's a tad friendlier than blogger in safari on ipad. Another addition to the blog was adding my Instagram feed. Found to the right (probably on this blog post). This is another attempt to try and include more picures into my posts.

Not very clear but says 50.0

My flight path goes from LAX to Florida. Florida to San Jose. Then I will take a taxi to the bus station and a 6 hour bus ride to San Franscico de Coyote, where I will stay in the office for the night and Lotti will drive me into Costa de Oro on Wednesday. I was stressing out today about the weight of my packed luggage, which is the reason why I have a slackline in my backpack. Now the weight of my luggage was really hard to judge, at one point I was holding Max in one arm and my bag in the other to see if I had reached the 25 lb mark yet. Well, after about an hour of stressing mom went next door and was able to borrow a scale. Leaving the house my bag was at about 47 lbs, which I figured would give me a little bit of wiggle room in case the scales were different... I'm not intirely sure if they were different or something in my bag expanded, but, my bag was at 50 Lbs exactly when checking my bag. There was a big sigh of relief when nothing was said about it.

Mom and Miya are heading up to Camarillo for the week and dropped me off at the airport. So my last meal in California was In n Out, I'm sure tomrorow I will have some horrendous breakfast in the airport in Florida and then some Americanized lunch when I land in San Jose before my journey to Costa de Oro begins.

 

 

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