Todays major activity was to ride a bike to the golden gate bridge, ride over it to a town called Sausolito and catch the ferry back. A nice little bike ride apparently so rather than catch a bus to the…
I escaped from Alcatraz
This morning I awoke rather fresh after a decent nights sleep. This surprised me because, I’m staying downtown and I could hear traffic all night when I woke up once or twice. Its quite loud during the day and the…
San Francisco…. I’m here
Well my first few hours in San Francisco have passed and its given me the warm and fuzzy feeling I got in Hong Kong. Of course completely different cities, but still places like London failed to excite me when I…
Ripped off in San Jose
Well today I was scammed. Well not literally but I just felt like I wasted money on something crap. My last day in Central America and thought I’d grab a half day city tour of San Jose.So at 12:15 I…
Zoo ave
This morning I caught the bus to Zoo Ave. Well it took me a while to find the bus. Firstly the bus terminal which is quite large and hard to not find then the bus in the terminal. I’m used…
Do you know the way to San Jose…….
Do do da da do do dada daaah…….I’ve been saving that bad joke for a while….Truth is I don’t know the way to San Jose and in fact I bypassed San Jose.I’m going to stay for the next few nights…
Cahuita National Park
So today I woke up and planned to hike through Cahuita National Park. It is mostly flat trail that goes from one entrance to the other entrance. Apparently only 8.3 kms total. Sounds easy enough.The trail seemed to be either…
Caribbean canals
Today was an interesting day. I was due to catch a boat from Tortuguero to Moin then bus to the town of Cahuita, but when I turned up it was obvious the boat situation was a problem. Why? because it…
Canoeing around the canals of Tortuguero
This morning i went for a canoe trip through the canals of Tortuguero. The canals are really smaller rivers but some are man made and others are real. Telling the difference is actually quite hard as the jungle has easily…
Las Pumas
I grabbed an early bus for todays big adventure to Las Pumas near the town of Cañas.I caught a bus to the main highway, then standing on the side of the road hailed down the next bus coming along. I…