Kepfram & Ellie's Travel Journal

So it's been about a month since I wrote anything last.
I've been busy.
Ellie's been busy too.
Recapping since January in no particular order:

• My family came to visit in January. My Sister for a week & my Mom for close to a month. Much fun was had, we went to the beach, visited stuff around San Jose, visited a volcano, hot springs, rode horses, & ate a lot. This was our first family vacation in about 7 years, not so bad huh?


• Ellie & I had other guests last month as well. 2 of Ellie's good friends from NYC were here for a little bit. Taliegh stopped by for a couple days after a business trip & Randi was here for a week to study medical spanish. It was great to see some familiar faces even for a little while.


• Ellie & I visited the Baldi Spa in La Fortuna again with our friends Lea & Omar (I love me some hot springs).


• My afro became short locks.


• Our computer died. The power connector broke about 2 weeks ago & the price to replace it was ridiculous down here so it got sent home.


• I celebrated my birthday on Monday. Thanks for the cards everybody!


• We're leaving Costa Rica for good on Saturday. I've said goodbye to my friends & students, taught my last class, packed up our clothes, & cleared out most of our kitchen. It still looks like nobody wants to rent our apartment.


• Travel Plans:
  Sunday, arrive in Panama
  3 days later we fly to Quito, Ecuador. We'll make our way south to Peru hitting as many sites as we can, volcanoes, ruins, parks, etc. in about 2 weeks (we hope). We're gonna do the same in Peru(over 3 weeks), followed by Bolivia (<1 a="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile" week="">Chile(1 month), Argentina (1 month), & Uruguay (just a weekend visit from Buenos Aries).

We had a great going away party, former-students, friends, & co-workers, a shame everyone couldn't make it. We should have had more parties here. I'm going to miss San Jose & Costa Rica. The people & places we've come to know & love over the last 9 months have been wonderful. I hope to keep in touch with everyone see them all again in time.

Things I'll miss (I had this list originally in the dead iBook, so this is nowhere near complete):
Guys selling fresh squeezed orange juice from shoping carts with attached juicers in the mornings
Salas the artist who paints scenes of Costa Rica on Avenida Central
Teaching
My students
Tin Jo
Pan y Vino
Crem Rica
The VIP movie theater in Terra Mall
& many more things I don't have time to write about...

Ok, I gotta go catch a bus. I'll write more from Panama...

Kepfram

Labels: Costa Rica, Status Update