Santa Teresa de Cobano ....Mal Pais (Costa Rica)

Well we´ve been in Mal Pais for a few days now.
We are staying at Casa Del Mar which is 500 meters down from Tranquila Backpackers. There were no reviews for Casa Del Mar but we had a recommendation for this place from another hostel. The recommendation was correct. It´s a relaxing place full of surfers. The new owner and his wife are 30 something and live such a chill lifestyle of upkeeping the place (which includes letting their friends live there and clean and fix things in return) The place is FULL of hammocks and it is just SO relaxing here.

The MOMENT we arrived.... it was the first day we had been at a beach without rain so we quickly changed into our swimsuits and swam and layed out. We watched the sunset over the pacific beyond the low clouds and fog and soon the lightning and thunder began. It was all so perfect. For as many people as we see booked in hostels and walking around the town...the actual beaches are SO SURPRISINGLY vacant. Its so different from San Diego.

The crazy thing is the waves, here. You walk 5 feet past the water´s edge and there are INTENSE waves. The first time I got in the water I was confident the wave only a few feet in would be fine for me to walk towards and it pushed my feet behind me like in a cartoon scene ... face approaching the water straight in front of me. I had a great laugh. Good thing Kevin is a trained lifeguard. haha The 2nd day of swimming I also literally got knocked on my behind FROM A WAVE! fun.

Today will be a beautiful day again. I think the rain passed.
Today will include Kevin watching more than one soccer game on tv with the locals and hostel owners. Which means, I get to paint in my journal.

In each hostel there is a little area where you can use the things people have left behind and at THIS hostel someone left a travelers mini set of paints and it surely is awesome!! I´ve been enjoying just reading, writing and drawing. This is the life for me.

Tomorrow we head out to San Jose´Costa Rica, the main city... to prepare for our flight Monday morning at 10AM. From There we are off to Lima, Peru. It should actually be more settling there. In Costa Rica we´ve been rushing to get to every city we could because we had an 11 day deadline. In Peru we are very adamant about not hostel hopping as much and trying to relax and explore one town.