Silvia and Will In Costa Rica

Jun 22, 2009 - 10:30 AM

“Our days pretty much consisted of surfing, hiking around the national parks, getting sun burnt (Will) while snorkeling, biking around with shit bikes and then with sick bikes, lots of playing chess and some of the most sweaty miniramp skating you can imagine (we really found a nice miniramp in the middle of nowhere in Puerto Viejo). Unfortunately we were both not very on-point-photographers on the trip, but I still sent you a bunch of the photos I have. Additionally I can say you notice how many German people have immigrated to Costa Rica after the war when you taste the beer there. Imperial, the most famous Costa Rican beer, not only has a red-black-golden label in the shape of an eagle (German flag colors, the eagle shape is also a German symbol), it also tastes the closest to real German beer out of any foreign beer I have ever tried, its amazing. Also the pineapples are bigger than any you have ever seen, and the how-much-ice-cream-can-you-eat-in-one-day-records were skyrocketing. Oh and last season I’ve taught myself Spanish with a shitty book and it really worked well enough to get us some deals with local bike-rental-dudes and convince the sketchy non-official-taxi-driver to not kidnap us. No that was a lie; he never wanted to kidnap us. Anyways, it was a good trip even though we had only small waves most of the time and both got three-digit-numbers of mosquito-bites all over us. I guess that’s a fair price to pay.” - Silvia

“Costa Rica, Ice cream is sooo cheap that I was eating 6 or more cones a day. People say not to get into any unofficial taxis….We got into an official taxi the first day and were pretty scared we were about to be robbed. I let a little kid use my skateboard and they were calling it a scooter. You can bargain for anything, we talked this guy renting bikes who looked super high down from 10 dollars to 2 dollars a day….It was a lot of fun there” - Will