Final Days We’ve now arrived at the final destination of our Costa Rican Adventure, now located very close to Manuel Antonio National Park on the Pacific Ocean side of Costa Rica. From our balcony, we have a nice view of the ocean and we’d also discovered on the first morning that we’re also on a monkey route, getting visits on…

Over Land and Water After our four-night stay at the Lost Iguana Resort, it was time to pack up again as we would be picked up by our driver to be taken to our next destination. Our journey would take us a short drive to the edge of Lake Arenal, a boat ride across, then another drive to our destination…

Getting Here I mentioned in my previous post that we had a very early start leaving Vancouver yesterday morning. We arrived at our hotel late last night, around 10 PM so it was a pretty full day of travel and we were pretty tired, but obviously not tired enough to not stop at the hotel bar for a drink and…

Getting Ready Over the years, our routine of getting ready to travel has evolved. Quite a while ago, I started making a list using some software and that list has ballooned to almost 70 items. I know this sounds extreme but it includes many mundane things like charging up camera batteries and paying the credit card bill. Of course, on…