Blogging from Costa Rica

I really don't know what kind of Internet access I'll have while I“m traveling. I'll be writing on the laptop and postdate/time will reflect when I wrote them but who knows when I'll get to post them (since I'll need a place that will let me hook up my laptop).

To make things more confusing, I may have written some posts on the laptop that weren't posted. But may get access to a computer somewhere else and write up something quick. As a result some earlier posts, may be posted later but will still be dated earlier (and as a result listed earlier farther down the list).

Almost there!

So while our seats were a little tight for the trip to the layover (in Charlotte, NC) the seats from there to Costa Rica are great! We got emergency row with awesome leg room, I can't even reach the seats in front of us. Plus, there was were only room for two seats so there wasn't even anyone next to us on the four hour flight.

I'm really, really tired though. Had to get up around 4 AM to get to the airport by 6 for a 7 AM flight. Wasn't able to sleep at all on the flight but I'll bet I'll sleep well tonight.

We're spending the first few days in Jaco but not sure for the rest of the trip. Anyone have any suggestions?

We should be landing in about 25 minutes...

We Made It!!!

We're here, were safe and everything is great! We tried to rent a car but nothing available that we could drop off in Jaco (well, there was a $325 SUV, but I wanted a $60 car) so we took a two hour cab ride. Got dropped off at the hotel and just caught the sunset and then we checked in.

Hit an ATM (although we panicked for a second when the first bank didn't like either of our cards but the next banco was fine) and got 100,000.00 colones from the machine (about $190.00). Got some dinner and stuff (soda, juice, water, gatorade) for the hotel room . On the way back we saw some internet places so I'm heading out to see if I can connect my computer (to post this messages) and stop at a pay phone to call Mom to say I'm alive!

FYI - Did if you are leaving the country your bank or credit card company will make a note in their file if you let them know? Then they don't think any of it is suspicious activity. We did this, so I knew it shouldn't be that!...