Tico Times - Costa Rican English Newspaper

So a few weeks before I left I subscribed to the TicoTimes. It's a weekly English nation-wide newspaper about the size of Metro Times or a magazine from the Sunday section of a newspaper that comes out on Fridays in Costa Rica. A month's subscription included the ability to download the PDF file every week. It's a little hard to read on the screen, I think I get one more electronic issue, but I'll probably buy a copy tomorrow.

It was nice to get a feel for what was going on in the country. From a to do list it wasn't very helpful to me. It comes out on Friday and the calendar generally doesn't stretch much past the weekend. So I might go somewhere else tomorrow and I should have stayed here for something, but I've already made my arrangements. I did find out about some kind of air festival in the northwest but I forgot all about it, I'll have to check on that...

From a news standpoint I did know the rainy season was dying down early, I know the colon was going to go up in value (their "Greenspan" changed something), that the phone company might go on strike (they didn't) and a few other things. It's definitely worth the $8 to get the four issues on-line if you're considering traveling the country. I recommend this for anywhere, I've gone to the bookstore and picked up a newspaper for London, England to get an idea of what's going on there too (you might have to reserve these in advance).

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Where is Jaco, Costa Rica

So if you want to see specifically where I am you can go to the Google Map, that's my hotel in Jaco, dead center (actually, it looks like it might be before the renovations but that's it.

If you click the minus sign ("-") on the scale on the left you can zoom out. After about 4 clicks you can see the whole Jaco Beach coast. After about 5 more clicks you can see the Nicoya Peninsula (where I'll be heading via water taxi). A few more and you can see the whole country. Another 4 or 5 more and you can see Costa Rica with a good chunk of North and South America. Jaco should stay in (near) the center as you zoom out.

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Thursday in Jaco

I don't even have enough time to cover everything I did today. I mostly ate, slept and wandered all over the place. I also made my plans for tomorrow (which you'll hear later).

Weather wise, it was an awesome day. Sunny, the humidity was down (or I'm used to it), the sunset was awesome. The weather stunk in Michigan, thus that makes the exchange rate for the money worth even more to me :)

The sunset was awesome, the previous few days were no comparison! This is one of my favorite sunset photos from today.

I've also got a second album uploaded (be sure to pick "Set 2").

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