Tag: travel

Perhaps not very mindfully, impulsively even, I took a stroll to the sea shore and enjoyed a paddle on the near deserted beach.

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I started to walk the route that takes 4 minutes in a car and 40 minutes on foot. I just kept putting one foot in front of the other. Google maps tells me the walk took 42 minutes, it felt a lot longer.I arrived at the Uvita Pirates Hostel just before 5pm. Literally on my last legs. I dumped my bags on a picnic table outside and took a seat; I couldn’t move any further just now.

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At the southern end of the 1 km beach, there is a creek that runs into the sea. Strategically placed nearby are signs warning of crocodiles. Nearby where the beach meets the road there is a large sign warning of riptides in the area, and there are seeming ever present Tsunami evacuation signs!

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Alarm not set, but awake at 06:55 woken by some sort of machine noise and vibration very nearby. So close that the wall behind my pillow quivered. I could cope with the noise but the vibration was too unpleasant to tolerate.

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Before I checked out, I presented the owner with a broken toilet seat. I explained in my best Spanish and with some mime that the plastic seat had nearly caused me a concussion when it snapped and slipped sideways off the toilet. The owner expressed her concern and sent me on my way.

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I stood in the shade of a closed shop doorway and booked a room at the Hotel Don Robert a few blocks away. Even last year, this would have terrified me! Travelling somewhere without booked accommodation, let alone arriving somewhere without a hotel booking would have kept me up at night, I would feel like I wasn’t in control. (PPS+R … protect, promote, satisfy and repeat!)

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I’m really not sure where I want to go next, or what I want to do, so I have decided to travel to Puntarenas for at least one night before moving on – probably – south down the Pacific coast.

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We were each given small torches and off we set with our guide. It did start to rain quite heavily but under the cover of the forest, not a lot was getting to the ground. The tour was great fun, an interesting diversion despite the weather. Not that I got to see too much during the tour, it is of course potluck which gritters you might spot. I did see a couple of tarantulas, an opossum, various birds trying to sleep in the trees, some different spiderwebs, caterpillars and bees. I enjoyed the walk, and I enjoyed the experience.

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Zipline #6 was 800m long and you had to go down it in pairs. I was on my own, so I was paired up with Karin from Germany. I was behind Karin and had to put my legs around her waist, something I don’t normally do with strangers!

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The Jeep isn’t a Jeep! It’s a compact mini-bus with 18 passengers and baggage!

But the First Principle of Transportation is Safe Arrival so I will put aside my expectation… for now at least. But it is clear from the comments of the other passengers that expectations were being challenged.

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