Costa Rica
In February 2008, I led a group of nine intrepid travellers from the Get Out Philadelphia Adventurers Meetup on a fantastic trip to Costa Rica. We spent four days in the rain forest at La Danta Salvaje, and another two days in the funky-cool beach town of Puerto Viejo, on the Caribbean coast. I also stayed another couple of days in Puerto Viejo, relaxing and visiting with an old family friend, Dawn Yates (Louisville, Kentucky’s most reclusive artist), and her husband, David Vaughan, an experienced guide and owner of La Danta Salvaje.
Like so many things in life, you had to be there to fully appreciate what a great experience it was. And like so many other travellers before me, I have tried, nonetheless, to convey that experience after the fact by writing and posting pictures/video about it. Each entry in my “Costa Rica Journal” falls short of conveying what it truly felt like to be there, but if you take what I have written and multiply the feelings I’ve managed to express by some large factor, you may begin to get a sense of what those of us on the trip experienced.
I hope you enjoy my Costa Rica Journal, and if you have comments or your own Costa Rica experiences to share, including suggested places to visit there, I would be happy to hear from you. I will be going back to Costa Rica — many times, I hope, so if you want to come on one of those adventures, let me know that, too.
As they say in Costa Rica, Pura Vida!
Costa Rica Journal
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