This is part of 8 posts where I will, with minor edits and omissions, put my journal from days in Costa Rica online. There is no real grammar structure, but hopefully it makes sense...10/27/2010 Wednesday
Speaking of doing things alone, I have discovered that I am the only one with reservations at Casa Zen for the 3 nights I'll be here. This is bizarre considering this same week last year they were turning people away. It will just be the sound of the rain and me here tonight... a bit of a weird feeling about that. I should make progress on another book, to say the least. Me and the staff watched "Nightmare Before Christmas" tonight. (Also, several of the staff here recognized me when I got here, which surprised me.) But before that... I came by bus from Montezuma. The bus "stop" there is a gravel lot. Luckily there were buses and people standing around, or I would have walked right by it. I had to ask the driver which bus to get on... they weren't marked. On the 2nd bus (Cóbano > Santa Teresa) I talked to an Argentine guy for a while. He showed me photos of Chile and Argentina on his camera; one of Aconcagua (climbing it is a life goal) from what must have been near the first base camp. I showed him photos from the top of Mt. Democrat. When I got to Casa Zen it started raining. After a while it cleared so I walked the beach north a mile or so. I really hope it's sunny tomorrow. The beach was nice but a lot of wood and trees down. The storm that brought the tornado to Manuel Antonio must have torn apart a lot of the coast. I don't know if it's La Niña here as well or not. Either way, it seems everyone is tired of it. Tomorrow I'll get busy one was or another... feeling inactive and idle. Surfing should fix that. That reminds me, the only other person getting a ride to Montezuma on the speed boat was surfing here today. I guess the waves in Montezuma weren't ideal. [I thought they looked great, but all breaks seemed to have major consequences if you fell. Not so here.] He was from Israel, spoke pretty good English.
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