Day 4 is now in the books. It has been a nice day…much slower paced. We did not have to get up and go anywhere. Nonetheless, we were awake around 7 AM and just kind of laid around planning the day. But in an instant, we made the decision that we did not want to drive 4+ hours to the Jaco area and then 1.5 hours to San Jose on Saturday. So I cancelled all our hotels there and our flights from San Jose. I then booked a new hotel for two nights near Playa Hermosa which is only 20 minute drive from where I turn the rental car in and 25 minutes from the Liberia. airport. And to drive to Playa Hermosa….probably about 30 minutes. We will be staying in a place that I had booked the first time we attempted to come down to Costa Rica and could not get on flights or the flight was cancelled. So that will be kind of fun to now see that. Anyway, all this travel agency stuff I did took 30 minutes as all. I called the rental car company to see what a ‘drop’ charge would be for the car in Liberia. It is only $45…which is probably less than what gasoline would be to drive the car back to San Jose. We are now booked on a 10:15 AM flight to Houston and then to SLC on Sunday.
All of our stays also provide breakfasts which have been quite good. This morning we both had ommelets with a nice plate of fruit. No fruit juice though which was kind of a bummer. After breakfast, we got into our beach gear and headed to Playa Flamingo which is a bit more upscale area than where we are now. The drive was about 10 minutes at the most. The beach was quite scenic. But the surf was quite rough. No where really to snorkel either. And, I think the tide had come way in and pulled a lot of the debris up near the road and pulled it into the sea as the sea and the beach had tons of twigs, branches, coconuts, stumps that the sea had deposited on the beach. Nonetheless, I still ventured out to get a swim in. But I’ve never been rolled in the sand as this surf did to me. It was rough. The water was warm. I don’t know…it might be the time of year….but the sea has not treated me well as in other places.
We stayed at the beach until about noon. We then returned to our room for a swim in the pool (to get cleaned up) and to plan out the rest of the day. Well, we ended up staying at our tropical hotel the rest of the day and evening. We had left over Indian food to warm up. So I walked down the road to the Indian restaurant to get a couple orders of Garlic Naan to go with our left overs. Again, we hummed as we ate lunch. As I waited for the Naan, I spoke with the young man running the restaurant. He is Indian and has only been in Costa Rica 5 months. He left his wife and two children to come over here to see if he could make this work. This is the 2nd Masala’s to open in the area. The original is in Liberia. This one here at Playa Brasilito has only been open 3 months. I hope they do well so he can get his family over here with him. He was married at 20 and hast a boy and a girl. The oldest is 14 and tied to her school for now he said. Nice guy.
After lunch, we decided to hang out be the pool. We decided to watch a movie that I had downloaded on Netflix. It was called ‘Worth’…a true story of a man charged by the US government to establish a fund to pay family survivors of 9/11. It was very interesting to see all the issues involved with such and how this man had to change is perspective on how to value the worth of someone who had died. It is PG-13 but it did have some rough language in a couple of quick spots. So beware. We both really enjoyed it. While watching the show, I noticed something large kind of fall out of the tree on to the ground. It was a big Iguana…I think. It was a large lizard. I think Denise sent me pictures that I’ll post here. But it had its eye on something and crawled slowly to the other end of the pool, thank goodness. It eventually sprinted to the opposite fence and then climbed the fenee and on to the house next door. Pretty amazing.
Just after our movie ended, an American couple came walking by. She had been in the pool and he was just sitting visiting with her. But when she got out, they came our way heading to the restaurant. But, I asked them where they were from. 2 hours later, we went our ways…they to the Indian restaurant and us to get showered. Their names were Ed and Becky Gordon. They decided to retire down here in 2017. He was a Sheriff’s Deputy in Orlando Florida. They live in Nuevo Arenal and have come over and stayed at the Conchal Hotel a number of times when dropping people off at the airport. They love it here in Costa Rica. We covered lots of topics. But they were very nice and was apparent that they were very active in their non-denominational church. They bought and remodeled a ‘Tico’ house…a ‘local’ house. Apparently it needed to be gutted and re-designed which they did. They said it was about 1100 square feet with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. The really love the climate where they live. Anyway, it was great meeting them and talking for so long. The invited us to go to dinner with them. But since we had Masala’s food for dinner last night and lunch today, we declined.
For the evening, we got showered and headed upstairs to the restaurant here. We had a yummy meal that started with Sesame Guacamole with homemade chips followed by Sesame Seared Tuna with fresh vegetables and rice. We shared the main course and it was plenty for both of us. We’ve been impressed with the food here. But it is a bit pricey eating in these hotel restaurants. We need to find the Costa Rica Burger King at some point! Anyway…great day.
Tomorrow we move to a new hotel. But the big thing is…we are going to use our Home Test Kits and get our Covid Testing done. Big hurdle for us to get back home on Sunday. If it works and we test negative, we’ll be home Sunday. If not… who knows what we will do. But we will be scrambling a bit. More to come on that!
Today’s pictures:
Flamingo Beach….you can see the debris that had been washed out and then back in on the beach. Sad that they don’t come clean it up. Maybe they do in the tourist season.
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