Semi Home Stretch

Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste
Jordan The Mermaid

June 29, 2011 La Fortuna to Guanacaste…..Semi Home Stretch

Today, we spent the majority of the morning on the bus, with the destination of the sunny side of the country in mind, Guanacaste. We drove for about 4 hours to reach our Hotel Nacazcol, which seems to be a condiminium community/hotel. Many of the students’ rooms are not rooms after all, but condos with fully stocked kitchens, upstairs/downstairs, and all of the ammenities. After lunch at the Restaurante Capitan Morgan, we once again loaded the bus, and took off toward Playa Hermosa, a more remote beach on the Pacific Coast. We were given three hours (in my opinion, about 1 hour too much) to relax, swim, and spend time on the beach. I didn’t get in the water much, just a twenty minute dip, but enjoyed watching the kids make Jordan into a mermaid with sand, and talking to one of the venders. His name was Winston, and he is from Nicaragua, saying that he spends about half of the year here in Costa Rica, and the other half back in Nicaragua. He was 24, and I felt half bad, as he said that he has to come here because the life is better, yet he doesn’t have many friends besides his twin brother, and the other vendors. At home he says that he goes out with friends and family, but that here, he just works, and goes back to his home. I tried to imagine what his life is like, and am only left thankful for my own. Luckily for him, he has a great attitude, and loved talking to me about the Howler Monkeys, or Congo Monkeys, that congregated in the trees above us. Our return trip back to the hotel left only time for dinner, and then bedtime, which I think we all welcomed with open arms.