Just the view from our hotel room. No big deal.

Today was another travel day. Up around 5, bound for the airport. The flight to David was rather uneventful. Actually a pretty big flight considering David is 100000ish people. 3 rows on either side. The David airport reminded me a lot of luang probang in Laos. We were just about to touch down and your looking down thinking where the hell are we going to land, there's nothing but trees here.

A kind of crummy ride into town with another cabbie insistent on ripping us off. Then to say that random bus stop he said would be faster than going to the bus station. The problem being you had no idea where any of the mini buses were headed (we eventually learned that they had the final stop plastered on the front windshield, although as ours wasn't the last stop, it wasn't much help). Kate went to work again, talked to a lady, who told us it would come. Which was great, until Kate decided to use the bathroom in the McDonald's and I was alone with th bags when the bus came. The lady was boarding on a different bus, but I asked the guy and he confirmed, paso Coneas, the border town. I was prepared to miss it, when Kate came running on, we hopped in, and were on our way.

Dumped off at the "frontera" a vocab word I actually know, and started the adventure of the border crossing. Exiting panama was easy, as was entering Costa Rica 100 meters down the dusty street. Not much in lieu of security, we probably could have just kept walking. The bus stop was also an easy find and we were lucky to have a quick turn around to a departing bus. Another 2ish dollars later (some 4000 calones!) and the Costa Rican country side was whizzing by us on our way to the coast.

An elderly later overheard my practicing the word for small pier and asked if we were headed to puerto Jimenez, indeed we were. She ended up being super friendly and showed us where to get off in golfito for the (poorly marked) ferry.

Our hotel here is amazing. On the bay, nice rooms, very accomadating staff. The town has a great atmosphere too. Quiet, with a sprinkle of tourists. We had a good, large, late lunch of Costa Rican typicas, shopped at the grocery store for tomorrow, and met our guide. He had in mind exactly what I envisioned when I read about the tours online, so hopefully it was works out. Off to Corcovado!