OUR RETIRED ADVENTURE
qUEREMOS VIVIR AL SOL
KSha
Costa Rica is amazing! Beauty abounds.
Panama is "home" for now. Loving life!
South America is next! Columbia here we come.
Costa Rica is amazing! Beauty abounds.
Panama is "home" for now. Loving life!
South America is next! Columbia here we come.
We laughed and put a towel down on the floor to make sure our luggage, or bed didn't float away as the rain kept pouring down...and we had a few cocktails while playing cribbage to soothe our minds. (You may recall, NGG was making a comeback and she brought it back to single digits before we hit the hay--with a wary eye on the ceiling.) The morning arrived with the rain taking a break, but the radar had storms coming back again around midday as we headed down to breakfast. We were pretty fit to be tied with what had been happening at this hotel as we sat down for breakfast. The nice waitress we had seen the day before was another person as we both looked at each other and said what the %#@* is going on. Rude was only touching the poor service and we couldn't wait to finish eating. (There was another issue occurring at this hotel that I am not taking space here to describe--but another negative notch in the "let's get out of here column".) As we walked back to our room (3rd one we've occupied in a day and a half), we both said we need to get out of here. Long story short, we called our travel agent--Wendy--you ROCK!, and she and her CR colleague went to work on changing our location. While we waited for some news, we saw a weed-wacker extraordinaire in action; saw a new crew of white-face monkeys come by the building for some grooming, then check out the clothing on the 2nd floor balconies, and then lounge in the tree after a hard early afternoon's work. Our super travel team gave us the great news shortly thereafter that we were able to pack and check out of Hotel Karahe and we would be going to our next destination in Dominical at Villas Rio Mar for the extra 5 days we had left at Karahe. We packed in no time and were on the road 30 minutes after receiving the news. We headed back to Quepos; as the road dead-ended by the Manual Antonio National Park about 5 km south of our hotel, and set out again on Ruta Nacional 34 (34) south to Dominical. I have to say, this was mostly a normal drive and we made good time to our greatly anticipated new home. GG called for a hard right turn on "the dirt road" as we came into Dominical--and I have to say I didn't listen to her, as I was coming in a little hot (a hair too fast) to make the turn. But I recovered quickly and turned at the next corner a 100 meters past the directed turn. We drove a short way and got a "turn right on the road" and I followed as directed. Another 100 meters and we ran out of pavement...and onto a dirt road. Now you know what I say about roads that most people would turn around for...damn right, keep going! (If it was easy to drive on, everyone would!) As we bounced over the rocks and avoided the mud puddles/holes, crossed two mini bridges and watched the river to the left of the road we came upon Villas Rio Mar. As we moved our luggage to our room we both had huge smiles on our faces! This place is incredible! Tucked in the middle of the jungle, with the river Baru across the road, there are villas with outdoor patios with refrigerators/sinks and beautiful rooms and a huge bathroom with rain shower. We couldn't have been happier! We had lunch at the really cool restaurant on the property and then took the "4x4" back down the 'road' toward town to check out the beach (first 3 pics). We played cribbage on our patio that first night with some drinks we got at the mini Supermercado around the bend from the town center and felt extremely satisfied that we had moved! The next morning, after breakfast, NGG was adamant about giving the 4x4 a break and had us on foot to town. The 1.5 km trek was almost easier on foot as we made it to town in 12 minutes (yes we timed it). We did venture down to the river and walked along the rocks for awhile until we ran out of real estate and headed back to the road before reaching "downtown" Dominical. A quaint small village with a lot of hostels by the beach and a small little escuela (school) in the middle of the neighborhood. We returned "home' about 1 1/2 hours later. NGG was making some headway with her deficit in cribbage--which had blogger boy, studying the cribbage board (last pic) for the afternoon/evening battle. We have a neighbor that documented that we have toucans on the property! NGG has researched their sound and is ready to capture our moment for history!
3 Comments
Lisa
7/26/2021 09:26:46 am
I'm glad you guys got out of the last place because this place looks incredible! And they have toucans?!? Jackpot!
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Sharon Seibel
7/26/2021 05:16:45 pm
This place is amazing and I saw 2 toucans fly past our patio yesterday, too quick to get the camera, so they are here!!! Probably not as elusive as your one can!!! Love you
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7/28/2021 01:05:49 pm
Again, such beautiful pictures. Glad you weren"t closer to the earthquake. Also glad you have an awesome place now. Looks beautiful! We are sure you will get those shots of the toucan. Love you!
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