Costa Rica is only the size of West Virginia, which would make travel easy right? You look at a map, and see that La Fortuna is only 30 miles from San Jose. A quick 30 minute day trip right? Bzzzt!! It's a four hour journey. Want to know why? Click here for another of my ever popular road drawings.
Alot of the country was deforested for cattle grazing
A typical house...this is actually pretty upscale too. Note the unpaved roads.
We stayed in the shadow of the active volcano Arenal
The Church in the center of town.
The most useless sign in the world. Volcano? 17km??? Get out of here...i don't see any volcano....oh you mean the gigantic smoldering mountain taking up my entire field of vision.
Stopping for some lunch.
The deck off our room
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