Although we're not really in the rainy season, yet it has been raining every day and the gringos are starting to get the Costa Rica version of "cabin fever". So what do you do with an hour or two of sunshine? We decided to take a walk up our riverbed road into town to buy some milk and eggs - about a 3.5 km round trip. The amazing thing is that even when you are technically in town, every house seems to have a watchdog, or a watch chicken, or even a watch cow.
Our road. Although we were afraid to drive up it the first day here - we now consider this to be a relatively "good" road for Costa Rica. When it is raining it really does look like a river bed as the water runs down, then it dries up an hour later.
Although I'm definitely not a "dog person", this little guy decided to adopt me for some reason. He trotted along by my side for the first km of our walk until a bigger dog chased him away, but we found him waiting at our door when we returned. Even though I keep telling him to go away in both English and Spanish, he just looks at me with big puppy dog eyes and wagging tail. Kind of reminds me of one of my ex-boyfriends.
Some guardians of the front yards on our trip. None of these creatures are fenced in - they just greeted us on the side of the road. The house below is actually in a nice neighbourhood in the town of Tronodora.
Ken all tuckered out after our walk. We finally got the hammock out, then put it away about half an hour later when it started raining again.
Three and a half weeks in and we're still loving Costa Rica. In fact we love it so much we checked to see if we could delay our Ecuador trip a month. Unfortunately it costs too much to change it now so we still have to leave here at the end of August. Que sera. Adios!
Our road. Although we were afraid to drive up it the first day here - we now consider this to be a relatively "good" road for Costa Rica. When it is raining it really does look like a river bed as the water runs down, then it dries up an hour later.
Some guardians of the front yards on our trip. None of these creatures are fenced in - they just greeted us on the side of the road. The house below is actually in a nice neighbourhood in the town of Tronodora.
Ken all tuckered out after our walk. We finally got the hammock out, then put it away about half an hour later when it started raining again.
Three and a half weeks in and we're still loving Costa Rica. In fact we love it so much we checked to see if we could delay our Ecuador trip a month. Unfortunately it costs too much to change it now so we still have to leave here at the end of August. Que sera. Adios!
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