I forgot to mention the 2 coyotes we saw crossing the road while we were on the way to the Toyota plant (but they weren’t chasing a roadrunner . . . road runner country is farther west! J) on Monday. It was kind of neat though to just see them ambling along out in the middle of nowhere!
Tuesday, the 26th, was a travel day and not a whole lot else! I was up at 2:30 a.m. so we could leave for the airport at 3:30. We flew from San Antonio to Dallas and then hung out there for 3 hours or so until our flight to San Jose, Costa Rica. We finally arrived here at around 4, I think it was. Then it was off to the hotel---a beautiful hotel at that!
San Jose is like most big cities . . . so it really doesn’t give you what you are hoping for when you first arrive in Costa Rica! Rather than lush green jungles, you see a jungle of cars, not so nice buildings, lots of chain stores just like you would see in the US, and a LOT of people! It is pretty dirty and there appears to be a lot of poverty. However, there is a beautiful theatre, they have town squares that are a great meeting place for people, and some beautiful homes as well!!
Interestingly enough, there was an Iron Maiden concert in town that night that was a big newsmaker! I saw an article in a newspaper from a couple of weeks ago about the concern that this concert would bring in gang members from other countries or areas! And we saw a number of people with Iron Maiden concert T-shirts the following day! One of our guides had driven by the area of the concert and was amazed by the number of people—long-haired, dressed in black, etc. . . . sounds pretty much the same as there, huh?
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