May 17, 2011

So my bags still haven't arrived. The airline (repeat after me: NEVER use Spirit Airlines. They CHARGE YOU to check your bags, then they lose them!) In order to not completely ruin my trip, I'm heading off to Panama tomorrow. I'm doing it on the cheap: we'll take a long bus trip to Sixaiola, then cross the border to Panama, then take a taxi to the ferry to Bocas. In Bocas, we'll try to find cheap lodging. That's Wednesday. Thursday the plan is to do a snorkeling and dolphin tour. The cost was supposed to be $15.00. We'll just figure it out as we go. If I can get a zipline in as well, I'll do that.

So Thursday we'll do Bocas, then on Friday we'll head back towards CR, perhaps spending some time in Punto Viejo. We should get back to CR late Friday night, and then head out Saturday morning to Quepos, where we'll hang on the beach, see monkeys, and get to do the ziplines.

And then it will be time to come home, and to face the horror that is Spirit Air. I'm spozed to get home on Tuesday. There's a Liberty game on Wednesday morning. I'm taking bets on whether or not I'm back in the US for it. If not, I'm sure as h3!! gonna add that charge to the bill I send Spirit.

I forgot to mention that Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny were in the airport in Ft. Lauderdale. Not sure why, but it's Florida. Who knows, who cares? I got pics. And then today (or yesterday, they're starting to blur) I got pics of the undeveloped property Danny has here in Escazu. This evening his daughter Daniela and ex Sylvia took me up to a region north of Escazu called San Antonio. Daniela went to school there, and there's a beautiful church, La Iglesia de San Antonio, up there. I took pics, got some pics of the skyline, and stopped to pray and thank God for the journey so far. I'm sure there's a sermon in all this; as for me, yes, I'm annoyed that Spirit lost my stuff, but Danny loaned me a coupla pairs of shorts and some T-shirts, I bought some underwear, he is just as OCD as me and also saves the little hotel shampoos and soaps so he gave me a bunch of those, he loaned me a pair of his Tevas that, while a little large on my feet, can be strapped securely to them and so will avoid my having to put my sneaks and orthotics in the water.

It's a vacation. It's Central America. It's all good.

If the page ever loads, the link to the pics will be here

Going to bed now. Got to get up at 4am to head to Panama.