Traveling by Bus... Costa Rica's less traveled roads.

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Not a bad trip at all, considering it's our first backpacking trip with our boy!

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Here we were, finally on our way to Rancho Mastatal, and we were going to see how enoying traveling with more luggage than we were used to really is. I typically take nothing bigger than a 40 litre backpack and my wife's is a 35 litre... this time we were lugging around those same two backpacks, with a suitcase that is just about as big as both our packs and a stroller much too cheap to carry anything but a four year old on a smooth road!

Ok so you might think that a stroller would be helpful because it's a set of wheels and we could use it for something heavy when our little homie's not in it. I was concerned about the sidewalks in central america, I didn't remember them to be the smoothest I had ever seen, we weren't going to Switzerland or anything like that!!!

Turns out it really hasn't been bad so far. We took a taxi from the airport, switched hotels in San Jose by taxi (Uber works by the way over there and is really cheap, about $12 dollars from the airport to the center of town) and did the same from the hostel to the bus.

One really nice bus, a rapido took us to Puriscal. This was like any long distance bus you would expect in Europe or North America without a bathroom. All our baggages went under, in the belly of the bus. After about an hour or so, we were let off at the station in Puriscal, it seemed as though everyone knew we were going to Rancho Mastatal, I guess most foreigners wouldn't get out here otherwise...

We had a couple hours to kill, so we sat down at a little restaurant, we had rice, beens, fried fish, cauliflower fried with an egg that was delicious... I was craving chicharon so I ordered some, Jess thought it was grosse but it really was delicious! She's become a vegetarian over the last year. We think she cannot have meat because of the lone star tic that supposedly makes one alergic to meat!

We still had a good hour and a half to play before getting on another bus that was supposed to leave at 3 according to about five or six different people we had asked. I wanted to really make sure because it was the only bus that went that way for the day!

So we played in the town square, a cute little park a bit run down by time.

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There was this time capsule i really liked... funny it kind of looked like a giant red button, like the one no one dares to push, because we know it would be the end of us.

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And the time came to get on that second bus. It was a lot more reminiscent of my old traveling days in latin america than that first fancy bus. Ok there weren't any goats or chickens flopping around and it wasn't nearly as cramped but it felt like those old days. There were all sorts of large bags and other items being delivered along the way that took up the space where a wheel chair would normally fit and a bit of the aisle.

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After about an hour, the road got small enough that when a truck came the other way we had to slowly inch forward because they barely fit. The cliff side looked well too close for comfort, but I was excited, I hadn't seen this in a long time. It reminded me of my first trip through Mexico!

And then we were on a bumpy dirt road. Manu had a lot of fun, he was being thrown around the seats like a carnival ride! We laughed a lot and it made this almost three hour bus ride fun. The mountain views along the way were amazing and we could see his mind was running at a million miles an hour taking it all in.

A man took a bag of feed (I found out all those bags were feed for pigs and chickens) on his back and so our little boy was asking why was the old man carrying that big back on his bag like that, and if the dogs that came to meet him when the bus stopped were his 😁. Like I said, his mind was racing at a million miles an hour!

Those dogs were so happy, we supposed they were his or that at least he feeds them from time to time and they know it very well.

Until tomorrow... or sometime soon after!

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I'm more than sure that it has been an amazing trip so far. Funny fact if you are ever lost in Costa Rica ask for the Catholic church and then most of the directions are given from that point. There are usually parks or soccer fields in front of the Catholic churches. Usually Catholic churches are built heading its main entrance to the sun set (west) so it is clearly an easy way to have a reference where you are going. How is the 5 am to 6 pm schedule going? I was crazy in OR when in summer it was like 16 hours of sunlight.

Wow that's such great information! I never even thought about churches being built in a certain orientation, makes sense though!

Thanks for the tip. Oh yeah I like the early morning but the night falling early not so much 😀. We went to Alaska one summer the sun was out until about 1 in the morning!!!!

That's craziness, sun till 1 lol

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yeah but it was nice to be awake past my usual bed time

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Yes it was... I'm about a week behind on writing, we're about to leave the beach to go to a Volcano, but check out the next post where we visit a sustainability education center.

So is it easier or harder than you thought travelling with kiddiekins? They love an adventure as much as us, and home comforts as much as us. Luckily home comforts can be the hug of your parents at that age!

So happy you are travelling again.

That's interesting about Jess, the tic and meat! What is chicharon?

And I do want to know what happens if you press the button!!

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It's pretty easy traveling with this kiddo, he seems to love it and like you said as long as we're here for hugs he's got that home comfort when he needs it.

The only thing is lugging around an extra suitcase with our big tent and a buch of festival stuff for Jessi's workshops.

Chicharon, are basically very fatty pieces of BBQ pork skins. Oh and that tic thing seems real there are morw people talking about it, it's called the Lone Star tic ... crazy right?

Just like every kid in us we want to push the big red botton!

We've spent 5 months in 2018 in Costa Rica :) Country is beautiful but lack of yellow cheese and many other diary products made it hard for us to live there.

Haha yeah for some reason there's not a big dairy culture or fish either here. Even by the beach fish isn't a big thing, unless it's deep fried and probably frozen!

5 months is nice, you had time to really see the place.

Thanks for your visit... the next piece of the trip is up if you want to read that: https://steempeak.com/permaculture/@senorcoconut/costa-rica-let-s-visit-a-sustainability-education-center

Good pit stop - I like the pavilion or whatever that structure is with arches.

Look forward to more

Ah yes the pavilion, it was a nice place to hang out, seats made of cob all around in somewhat of a circle. It was really comfy to hang out in, one of my kid's favorite spot to play in.

ooops sorry I got confused with the next post... it also has a place with an arch.

The pavilion you saw was a place where people hang out out of the shade for sure but not the same thing at all as what I got confused about!!!

Thanks for the visit

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