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Octopus

// January 18th, 2005 // Costa Rica

Well again, i’m so happy to be here in samara… Yesterday I ate octopus… we were getting supper (come to think of it, i think it was actually the day before yesterday… me and paul were eating and this other gringo was at a table by himself… he invited us over and offered us some octopus… he had bought it for $3 direct from the fishermen… i’m not sure the ethics behind eating octopus (endangered? rare? safe?) but i figured it was ok… so i cut me a piece of his tentacle and bit in… it obviously tasted like chicken… with a hint of fish. it was ok… kinda weird though… so i guess now i’ve eaten something weird… though i think casey still has me beaten with his beetles and grasshoppers!

Its still super windy here… i wishi could guess at how strong they are… but they are definately similiar to the big storms we get in the midwest around tornado season… it really puts a bend in the palm trees… i keep looking for fallen coconuts (pipas) but i think someone runs around and harvests them before i get to them… bastards/…

woohoo, i just got directions to my land! i’m excited now!

When you drive into Carmona you turn right after crossing the bridge
into town and after the curve (motorcycle repair shop on your right
shortly after the bridge). Make another immediate right after 20 yards
and drive the gravel road up the rather steep hill. Soon there will be a
Y intersection halfway up but either one of the two roads is ok since
they meet again at the top.
Up there where it gets level will be a school on your left. Turn left
there and go on for about 4 miles past all those nice Gulf views and
further up until you get to Bellavista.
At the little tiny Bellavista church (Iglesia de Bellavista, hard to see
from the main road) go left and make another left along the Bellavista
football field and go right after the field where there is a little
concrete coffee recipient and lots of mature pines and go on that road
until you pass by your farm after perhaps 2 or 3 km.

so there, if anyone is in costa rica and needs a place to stay… there you go! kick off all the squatters for me though. hmmm… what else… we’re staying here one more night, matt may come here today sometime… otherwise we’ll head back to nosara for one night, and then either onto a park from there or back to san jose to figure out how to get to guatamala… lots of figuring to do!