I know I know, Im late posting. This is the first time I have had a steady enough signal to trust. I will strat with arriving. But before I do I have to sugest you go to Google Earth and download it, its a free download and is one of the most amazing things I have seen, but it will not only pinpoint where we are but in most cases will show you a pic of the front of the house or building not just an overhead view.
Also I am not able to access my comcast email address so if you need or want to email me direct go to:
now on to the show.
We got into Alajuela, which is where the airport is and is also about 5 min. from our hosts' house. The airport is new and modern and I thought,'well this isnt too bad', then we got to the passport section and while there was a line it seemed to go along quick and took about 10 min. 'this isnt too bad either' I thought, then we had to go down to the next floor to Customs...whoa! They had the checked baggage coming up the ramps and it was so pilled up they were falling onto the ground, people are scurrying and pushing to get their bags, and get into the 2 very long lines, to get your baggage scanned and be allowed in. We finally made it through there and walked outside to hords of people with signs trying to find people, Taxi drivers nearly trying to shove you into their car etc. luckliy Rafa (Rafael) was there waiting and ran everyone off.
Heading to his house we no sooner cleared the airport and what was the first sight I see? A Burger King/KFC. So much for atmosphere. We then pulled up to the first stop light, it was red and as we were waiting, 2 motorcycles came between the cars in the 2 lanes and shot through the light like it was green! Rafa said they pretty much act as though no laws apply to them...he has been right. There are lots of bikes her, mostly small on/off road bikes, they use less gas (which is $5.25 a gallon at this time) they also use them to move through traffic and expect you to move for them. They also use them for everything, just today I saw 3 people on one going to work, and my fav. was the guy zooming down the highway with a Little Giant ladder straped on his back! Traffic really is a Gladiator sport, I wish I could say its controlled chaos but its just chaos!!
We got to Rafa's which sits on a corner and is the same house he was born in, he said it was 120 yrs. old when his parents bought it, so its close to 200 yrs. old now. Its been remodeled many times. I large for the standard here but would be considered average sized in the states, prob. about 1500 s.f. One really cool thing is the little patio built inside. Here is a pic of Kevin and Rafa in it, the rock wall in back is also the back wall to the house on the next block over.
Sorry folks no pics at this time, having issues with the photo add portion of this, I will work on it and rty to get some uploaded in a day or two.
We turned in late that night and woke up early the next day, but the events of mon. the 9th are for the next post.
Don
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