I have no photos today or tomorrow because I am in Monteverde with no computer wifi, but I found a little cabina with a bathroom for $25.. I will stay two nights. Today I rode on 14 ziplines and the last two were the scariest of my life - one entailed jumping off a huge platform and then swinging like tarzan through the jungle - the jumping was like the worst dreams of falling and swinging SO high that my stomach was in my mouth. The last one was Superman where we were rigged up to the line as though we were birds and then flew across a valley and then into the trees. Because they worried that I would lose my glasses, I gave my glasses to one of the young guys who hooked us onto the lines and flew blind, as it were, not being able to see where I was flying into the trees where the landing platform was. It was thrilling but because of the high winds, around the middle of the valley, I slowed down, the winds whipping around my head and making me wobble as though I were done for. I wasn´t. Not soon enough, I came crashing to a landing at the platform and walked rather unsteadily back to the office. Again, I was surrounded by young kids, and one of the rigging guys asked the guy with whom I´d been chatting if I was his mom... Damn, just when I thought I was hip, I was exposed as the interloper that I am - blessedly a mom in what son Jack refers to as my ¨mom haircut.¨
Tomorrow I hope to go to the Monteverde preserve to hike with a guide, assuming I can get one tonight. The place is hopping with thrill seekers and even newly weds. I hear from other travellers that many ¨baby boomers¨are here checking out CR for retirement. I can see why even though I am really cold and my shower spouts luke warm water, not good enough for this chickie!
I promise a ton of photos once I return to San Jose day after tomorrow when I will gear myself up for spending New Year´s Eve in the sleeze-ball city...
Ciao for now.
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