June 2009
39 posts
Goodbye Costa Rica! Hello Peru!
Hey everyone, I leave tomorrow for Cusco, Peru! I´ve gotta start taking my altitude sickness medicine now because it is one of the highest cities in the world at an altitude of 10,800 feet, double that of Denver, Colorado. I´m also trying to psyche myself up for the five day hike we are doing to Machu Picchu. It will be the most physically rigorous part of my three month trip, leading to what I...
May 2009
145 posts
Tarzan swing!
Here is the link to a video of me doing the Tarzan Swing in the Monteverde Cloud Forest. It was super scary, I was asking all these questions, and the two guys on this plank just pushed me off, and I went flying down. Sara caught this video from below!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8681866@N07/3571546378/?edited=1
Costa Rica politics
I’ve been seeing huge posters all over the place with a photo of a woman and the words “Laura: Firm and Honest” in Spanish. Turns out there is a presidential primary here in early June. Several candidates are running to replace the popular, longtime president Oscar Arias, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 80s for trying to end civil wars in the region. Laura Chinchilla, the...
