// January 10th, 2005 // No Comments » // Costa Rica, San Jose
first, i’ll write basically from my diary for the last few days… i haven’t had internet access (by choice mostly) so here goes
Ok, i haven’t written much lately… i’ve been sick. On 1/7/05 i got a real bad sore throat… one of the worst i’ve ever had… it hurts to talk even. The night befroe i will talk about first though… we were all just sitting around (me, michael the german, and lance the canadian whom we were sharing a room with so it would be cheaper) and i suggested we go have some beer… michael and lance had already finished nearly a half bottle of rum so i took a shot and michael finished up the bottle… he was pretty tipsy already.
so we all walked downton and found a bar… it was kind of a neat bar… not a lot of people our age but the bar itself was like a glass dispay case and was full of neat stuff… one section had bills from all over the worls, others had nicknaks from different places… there was something or other from Door County… nifty.
so we drank there for a bit and met some cool girls from chicago… they invited us to a party later at 12:00 though we didnt end up going for reasons to be explained soon. We also met a kid from MN and a guy from GA.
I guess we wanted to go find a bar with more people our age. ( i don’t really remember, A) i was drinking and B) I didn’t write about it for nearly three days.) so we left and headed to another bar… there were more people… Michael was wasted and within 5 minutes had met a girl and was going to go home with her… i asked him how much she costs and he said she wasn’t like that… so he took off and we were going to stay at the bar and wait for him… he showed up at around midnight (which was about 45 mins later) and told us she did turn out to be a hooker… he kicked her out of the room then… she wanted $27,000 colones which is about $60 more or less) But by him leaving, we missed the time when we were supposed to meet the girls for the party… oh well.
Then for some reason we decided to leave this bar to go to the popular dance club… joy. it was a good long walk there.. i think the kid from MN showed us it as he was living in quepos for spanish school…. i think anyways… there was a $2 cover so we didnt go in and went to the dead bar next door… it was well dead so we had a beer and left… ended up going to the discoteque anyways… it was loud and shitty music… i danced a little so i could put up with the music that way at least… Michael talked to a few more girls, they all ended up being hookers… crazy… quepos is a very touristicy city which is why i guess…. it’s sick.
I got sick of him trying to pick up girls so i left to go home. i definately had no idea where home was… it took me at least an hour to make the walk… at some point, i stubbed my toe and split my toenail open causing blood to gush out of it… my feet are in shitty shape.. blisters from climbing the volcano, and now my toenail is fubared. geesh. i finally made it home, had to climb the fence to get in and then passed out.
thats about it for that night… the next morning i woke up a bit hungover and with a horrible bad throat. i spend the whole day in bed except for three hours at the beach, which i spent sleeping in the shade as well…. thats it for that day, about 18 hours of sleep.
Then it came time to leave quepos… we dicked around getting food and checking email and whatnot… ended up missnig the last bus to the little secluded beach city we knew nothing about. so we hired a cab… it was $20ish… about an hour drive… i didnt want to but michael did and he leaves in a few days so i went along… all the hotels once we got there were at least $50 or more…. so we said fuck it and went to the beach… michael would have paid it but they didnt take credit cards…. we decided to sleep on the beach… good idea at the time…
we walked along the beach, which was almost empty and totally beautiful… watched the sun set, got some over priced water from a hotel and then setup camp in the almost dark… we both were goign to sleep under his mosquito net. we then walked and got some normal priced water, and some snacks… went back to “camp” and sat around… there was some heat lightning in the distance and a few very very minor sprinkles… i wrapped my gear up in my rain fly for my tent and went to bed… well we got rained on a couple times for a few seconds but then it started to rain harder in the middle of the night… we had to move down the coast to under neath some sort of lifeguard stand… or siomething like that…. i didnt sleep very well due to rain, sand flys, and no pillow… it was well worth it though… we woke up to a great sunrise and swam… i was completely covered in sand and needed to clean off… well i should go, theres a big line for the internet.
