In The Beautiful Town of Puerto Viejo

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Posted by uluckidog 329 days ago (http://gonetilldecember.tumblr.com)

Elena and I are in Puerto Viejo. The town is beautiful. It’s much more laidback and relaxed than any of the places we’ve been spending time in. Well, actually, the farm was pretty laidback and relaxed. But Puerto Viejo is more laidback and relaxed in a different way. In a beach way.

How we got here:

In case we failed to mention, the hostel we were sitting is kind of on a hill. Rather, it’s at the base of the tallest mountain in Costa Rica, Chirripo. It’s also in the middle of the country. No, Costa Rica isn’t a huge country, but it takes some time to navigate due to it’s drastic topography and primative roadways. Because of this, we left the hostel early in the morning to hike down to the bus stop. This small jaunt took 20 minutes with everything we own on our backs, down steep, rocky road. Then we hopped on the bus.

Buses in Costa Rica are terrifying. As a passanger, you sit quietly in your seat (praying to yourself, perhaps) and try not to put your foot through the floor while you’re jamming on an imaginary brake pedal. Enormous 60 passanger buses are packed with 80 people, and the

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