Wow! This travelling thing is a strange animal. Last you heard I was robbed, feeling bummed and heading back to San Jose. Well, a couple of hours after posting that Rich phoned me from Nosara to say he was feeling crap about having my camera stolen and wanted me to join him and his cousin up there. Their room was huge and there was tons of space. He even bought me a plane ticket to fly back to San Jose with them today. So yesterday I caught a shuttle up the Pacific coast to Samara, a little surfer town about 38km short of Nosara. Thats about as much as I'd planned the night before, I couldn't get one all the way to Nosara as Rich had done. Asking in Samara it turned out their was no bus up to Nosara and I'd have to hike 4km up to an intersection with the main road and hitch from there! What a day. It was 40 degrees and yet I loved it. I rode a klapped out old truck for a bit and then a guy in a bakkie gave me a lift to about 5km short of Nosara. From there it was another sweaty hike but I did spot an armidillo en route. The faces on the reception staff at the fancy hotel when this dusty backpacker arrived were something to behold!
We had a great dinner at a spot off the beach last night and watched a gorgeous Pacific sunset. Oh, and I bought a new pair of boardies, very porno but I dig them. This morning we hired surfboards and Rich set about teaching me the ropes. It didn't take long to learn to get up on the smaller waves but I spent the afternoon getting munched by the bigger stuff. The double rum and cokes at lunch obviously didn't help! But now I'm feeling like a tanned surfer bru and loving it. I'll have to get me a board later in the year in Bali.
We caught a 4pm flight back to San Jose that took less than an hour - a bus would have taken closer to 12 or more! I am now going to grab a quick bite to eat and then hit the sack exhausted. I'm meeting Rich and his cousin Bill for breakfast tomorrow as they're staying at a fancy hotel elsewhere. Thanks again to both of them for having me along in Nosara, it was so awesome and incredibly generous of both of them.
I need to do some shopping tomorrow in San Jose, mostly for a new camera. And I think I'll do a river rafting trip on Saturday. It doesn't look like I'll make it all the way to the Caribbean coast but I'll save that for the Honduras.
Sorry again for the lack of pictures but I'll edit this post with some when Bill emails them to me. Timmy with a surfboard (and the hair is getting longer...), damn I miss auditing!
We had a great dinner at a spot off the beach last night and watched a gorgeous Pacific sunset. Oh, and I bought a new pair of boardies, very porno but I dig them. This morning we hired surfboards and Rich set about teaching me the ropes. It didn't take long to learn to get up on the smaller waves but I spent the afternoon getting munched by the bigger stuff. The double rum and cokes at lunch obviously didn't help! But now I'm feeling like a tanned surfer bru and loving it. I'll have to get me a board later in the year in Bali.
We caught a 4pm flight back to San Jose that took less than an hour - a bus would have taken closer to 12 or more! I am now going to grab a quick bite to eat and then hit the sack exhausted. I'm meeting Rich and his cousin Bill for breakfast tomorrow as they're staying at a fancy hotel elsewhere. Thanks again to both of them for having me along in Nosara, it was so awesome and incredibly generous of both of them.
I need to do some shopping tomorrow in San Jose, mostly for a new camera. And I think I'll do a river rafting trip on Saturday. It doesn't look like I'll make it all the way to the Caribbean coast but I'll save that for the Honduras.
Sorry again for the lack of pictures but I'll edit this post with some when Bill emails them to me. Timmy with a surfboard (and the hair is getting longer...), damn I miss auditing!
Update - here's my first hey bru photo! Thanks Bill and Rich...
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