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.
Sha had a vision for today's walk...but the high tide "said" that changes would be necessary. Two hours later, with the sweat soaking through my entire shirt and dripping off my shorts onto my shoes, we arrived back home. Depending on where we enter to the beach, we have one "river" to cross on our way to the "downtown" area; and another to cross if we want to get to the farthest south part of the beach (recall a few days ago we made it to the point out on the rocks during low tide at the southern end of Coco). Now to explain. During low tide, these "rivers" are 10 and 20 feet across with water about 3 to 6 inches deep (water coming down from the mountains). They are always there and don't pose any problem to cross with water-shoes during low tide. High tide is a different story. The small one that is before we get to town, becomes 20 feet across with 1 to 2 foot deep of flowing water out to the ocean. The large one at the end of town becomes 50+ feet wide and the flowing water is waist deep or more. We bypassed the first "river" by taking the road to town and then going to the beach after we passed its exit point. We enjoyed the views walking (in our tennis shoes) along the beach path to town and continued to the other end of town and the second river crossing. We watched as a man forded this river and carried his cargo in a plastic bag on his head as the water flowed just below his chest. Sha had thought to continue to the other side and find some new trails for us to explore. I heard GG in my head saying...recalculating. We reassessed, and undaunted, we rerouted and continued on. We needed to return the short distance back into town and get to the Ocotal road which we frequent quite often because it has the fruit/vegetable store and another supermarket that we shop at for supplies. Since we had only been walking for 20+ minutes, we both wanted more. Sha picked a road we hadn't tried before and we were off again-this time to parts unknown of Coco. We walked the dirt road into neighborhoods, giving and receiving friendly greetings from people sitting on their patios, walking and riding bikes along the way. As the elevation got higher, we had to look hard through all the trees sometimes to see the houses along our path. Stopping at a junction in the road to grab a shot of water (Sha carries the small backpack with the water bottles), we saw several houses up on the hill that we can see from our place, and then realized we were quite a ways from our home. [I then remembered the plans within the plan that we needed to shop for a few things before returning home, and we still had a good hike to get back to town] We navigated, and chose our turns carefully to head back to town and found a road that would take us to the main road and familiar territory. We hit the main road into downtown and saw that we had about a kilometer to go to get to Ocotal road (where we started on our new path) to get to the shops for supplies for our dinner. We made it to the store and picked up a sweet potato, sweet peppers, a carrot, and a butternut squash; along with a couple of oranges. Our last stop was to resupply our beer-somebody appears to have dwindled the supply when I wasn't looking-and then headed home. Luckily we were able to take the horse path shortcut home, because a light sprinkle started just as we arrived outside our complex. As we unpacked, the rain began in earnest. We had a hotdog lunch-yes I took the casings off before cooking; and then Sha began prepping our dinner. She chopped up the roots, peppers and onions and slow-roasted them all afternoon. Then she made some rice and seasoned up the sea bass. As the end of the afternoon rain was easing up, the roasted roots were done and the sea bass went into the oven. Fifteen minutes later we were enjoying a gourmet meal made at home! We both hope your holiday weekend was enjoyable and memorable. Pura Vida!
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