Tag: travel
member name: Timothy State
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January 21, 2007 12:11 AM EST --
"So are you going into the jungle, or are you going into the juuung-le?" the REI sales associate asked. We were looking at jungle clothes, and the skater dude sales associate we had been speaking . . .
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January 28, 2007 01:29 PM EST --
"How many for dinner," the host asked. The restaurant overlooked the Pacific Ocean. The sun had slipped below the horizon, gentle glows of pink and amber filter through the sky, ending the evening . . .
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January 21, 2007 10:57 PM EST --
The top of the volcano exploded like a firecracker. Even from our distance of a couple kilometers, we could hear the lava popping out of Volcano Arenal as it belched glowing flows of lava cascading down . . .
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January 21, 2007 01:03 AM EST --
The stupid American in me is easily overwhelmed in a foreign country. It started with the immigration and customs paperwork that we completed on the airplane as we began to descend into Valle Central where . . .
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January 21, 2007 10:34 AM EST --
This language barrier is much more challenging than I ever anticipated. As we sped into San Jose City on the freeway, we'd pass a sign before I could fully comprehend it. The taxi drivers here, as . . .
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January 22, 2007 11:48 PM EST --
"The animals, they don't like the rain," Alexander told us. "They stay home when it rain and don't come to greet the tourist."
While it rains in the rainforest, it generally . . .
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January 27, 2007 09:24 AM EST --
Our final day in La For Tuna, the skies opened up, and as the sun rose higher, nothing but blue sky emerged behind the silhouette of the two conical peaks of Volcano Arenal. While we couldn't see the . . .
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