San Jose, CR

sroller skating rink in the park near my hostel
pond in park near hostel
national soccer stadium near hostel, from $100m donation from china
landing in sanjose
lost in san jose


San jose:

-Nomadas hostel- family, people doing adventure race costa ricaa
- Grocery store experience- very overwhleming/stressful/exhausting, couldn't find peanut butter
- Tried to go to mall to buy a watch, wrong bus, eventually found walmart cr. Got lost in walmart lookin for cheap watch ($40!, not cheap)
-Walk around park/stadium/roller rink/pool/pond fish and paddleboats
- Next day, went to hostel pangea at 7am to find other friends
- Downtown, national theater, changed $, same outdoor market we went to in 2008!, national museum closed on Monday, national park, library, museum of art and cultural stuff, main pedestrian walkway,
- buy watch ($19, q &q brand, according to the guy working at the hostel its super nice and i should bring one back to give to my brother bc it will last your whole life.
- Ate in central market, can't believe we didn't go there in 2008.
- Met people at hostel pangea, swam, very fun and cool place.
- Bought bus ticket to nicaragua bc of costa rica rules ($26). when re-entering costa rica from another country you have to have proof that you are leaving costa rica. Supposed to leave may 14 at 7am from the paseo colon tica bus station.

Our master plan is to go pacific side to golfito and pavones, then to panama, thn up caribbean side. (Really poor route honestly.) Bus from san jose to golfito is about 8 hrs and $15. Pavones is a few more hours south. Panama should be canal, david, and bocas del toro. Then back to CR to manzanillo, puerto viejo, and from there I don't know.Passed jaco beach on highway, not as run down as 2008 (no more unfinished/abandoned looking high rises).