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3.09.2007
3.02.2007
Pleasant Suprises, Goodbyes, Endings, and New Horizons
I can look out at the hostel, which looks like a dollhouse. Its a two level dwelling with 14 rooms that hold 6 people each. From the palapa kitchen you can look back into the hostel and see what looks like 4 different groups of people doing different things. Our group - Room 8 - hangs out on the top right corner, and until yesterday was the loudest part of the hostel. Below our corner is the pool table, the next corner on the bottom is where the tv is, so occasionally you´ll hear the tribal music coming from Thicker Than Water, and above that seems to be where the quiet area is.
Yesterday there was a mass exitus from Tranquilo Backpackers (the hostel´s name) around 4 am. Surf Camp happens every Wednesday night, and there is a 4:30 bus to San Jose. Fong, Tyler, Noah, Gary, Brendan, Marcos, and Tansy all stayed up after Surf Camp and left for San Jose, to depart to other areas of the world from there. The hostel was reeling from the debauchery of the evening and to make everything seem just a little more intense, the heat of the day could not really be escaped; Red Tide is at its peak, and everyone is a bit timid about going in.
This is the perfect way to end my time here in Costa Rica. I feel like I´ve had two seperate trips, one immersed in the Tico culture, the other spent with travelers from all over the world. My last week was an intense one, where I got robbed - yes, again - stuck in a place I didn´t think I wanted to be, made friends with people who in daily life away from travel would not cross paths, and started to really understand how to relax.
I´ve been so lucky to have this experience, and whether it was the trip I´d imagined or not, turned out to be one of the best times of my life so far. I can only imagine what the second 30 years of my life has to teach me, and can´t wait for everything to happen.
I have two more days here in Mal Pais, where I plan on trying to stay as tan as I am, playing in the water, relaxing to the fullest extent, and trying not to think so much about what is coming. I am daydreaming about trips I´ll take, people I´ll visit, and experiences I´ll have.
Ciao, mk
Yesterday there was a mass exitus from Tranquilo Backpackers (the hostel´s name) around 4 am. Surf Camp happens every Wednesday night, and there is a 4:30 bus to San Jose. Fong, Tyler, Noah, Gary, Brendan, Marcos, and Tansy all stayed up after Surf Camp and left for San Jose, to depart to other areas of the world from there. The hostel was reeling from the debauchery of the evening and to make everything seem just a little more intense, the heat of the day could not really be escaped; Red Tide is at its peak, and everyone is a bit timid about going in.
This is the perfect way to end my time here in Costa Rica. I feel like I´ve had two seperate trips, one immersed in the Tico culture, the other spent with travelers from all over the world. My last week was an intense one, where I got robbed - yes, again - stuck in a place I didn´t think I wanted to be, made friends with people who in daily life away from travel would not cross paths, and started to really understand how to relax.
I´ve been so lucky to have this experience, and whether it was the trip I´d imagined or not, turned out to be one of the best times of my life so far. I can only imagine what the second 30 years of my life has to teach me, and can´t wait for everything to happen.
I have two more days here in Mal Pais, where I plan on trying to stay as tan as I am, playing in the water, relaxing to the fullest extent, and trying not to think so much about what is coming. I am daydreaming about trips I´ll take, people I´ll visit, and experiences I´ll have.
Ciao, mk
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