November 30, 2007 Archive Entries: The Internet is SO slow in Montezuma!, Showing up in Montezuma..., (I thought I) Figured the phones out, Made it to Montezuma, Off to Motezuma in a Water Taxi,

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Off to Motezuma in a Water Taxi

Cr Montezuma Jaco Water-Taxi So I'm off to Montezuma this morning. You can see the ride by car would take forever. The water taxi, pretty much some guy on a boat that'll hold about 8-10 people/luggage, will take about an hour. If experience holds, it'll take longer since it'll be way late. I sure hope it doesn't rain...

I'll be at the El Sano Banano, it's a little hotel (in a little town), but I have access to their resort way down the beach. I'd consider staying down there but there is no A/C in their cabanas.

That's all for now I've gotta shower and finish packing and get a taxi to get me to the water taxi (it's actually at the next town north).

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Posted by Gary on Friday at 9:45 AM on November 30, 2007.
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Made it to Montezuma

I made it to Moctezuma. The taxi ferry was much nicer than the last time.

I met two american surfers from opposite directions heading to the same destination (Snata Teresa). They were fun to chat with and made a beautiful ride even more fun.

I'm staying at the El Sano Banano, I got all settled into my room and ate already. I made a mad dash to their sister resort, Ylang Ylang, but I was too late to catch the Monkeys do their daily swing down the beach :(

Although I am taking advantage of their free Internet to give you this update...

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Posted by Gary on Friday at 3:51 PM on November 30, 2007.
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(I thought I) Figured the phones out

I finally got the phones in Costa Rica to work again. I'm sure they worked before I just couldn't get them to work last trip. The trick is to get to an AT&T operator, or at least that's what I wanted since my calling card is AT&T. So from a phone you just dial

0-800-011-4114

and that gets you an AT&T tone/message and you can dial your 1-800 number that's on your calling card. Now these are the same notes I had scratched onto my card so I'm not sure if I misread them last time or the new pay phones they put in work more like the much older ones.

Now in the past (when it worked) it always used my minutes conservatively, it said it would use my cards at a 12 to 1 ratio (a 60 minute card would last 5 minutes) but it lasted much longer in the past. Not this time, I only got my 5 minutes that I had on that card (I got the cars from Sam's Club).

Actually, I only got this to work in Jaco, I tried in Montezuma but no success (yet). I bet they want me to put money in the pay phone, but I'm not certain. Whatever it is, it's probably the same problem I had last time.

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Posted by Gary on Friday at 8:15 PM on November 30, 2007.
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Showing up in Montezuma...

Today was just a travel day. Packing, travel, checking in, unpacking, eating and picking up supplies. I'm in the same room as last time I was at the El Sano Banano, it's the place with the awesome air conditioning. Here's a street map of Montezuma, the map is kind big, but you can see most of the stuff is in the middle. Sometimes they spell Montezuma as Moctezuma, so I switch it around a bit too (mostly for the search engines).

It's evening now and nice and cool out. I'm getting dinner (at L'angolo Allegro), some homemade pasta (no meat, I accidentally picked a vegetarian place), bread and a glass bottle of Fresca. It was very nicely presented, I should have taken a photo.

This is the town where they do the fire show (dancing and breathing) in the streets so I'm hoping for a show one of the next few nights. Tomorrow morning there is some kind of market (Saturday) that I want to check out before I hike up to the waterfall.

I've got some more photos posted (see set 3 for the latest), They've even (mostly) got titles and captions.

I have no idea when I'm actually going to get this entry and the photos posted. 'Net access around here stinks and while internet cafes are abundent, no one seems to have high speed (that would be some kind of satellite hookup).