rest in Islita
first flat
cooking dinner
camp
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1/28-29
If you were a Costa Rican, what would be the best way to build a road from Point A to Point B?
a. make a dirt road and throw large rocks and boulders on it
b. don’t bother going around mountains, rather, find the most difficult route and the largest mountains to go over
c. don’t use switch-backs to lessen the grade, just go straight up the face of one side, and straight down the face of the other
d. put this road in the hottest and driest area of the country, and then put snakes on it
e. All of the Above
Enough said about the worst ride ever. Our maps didn’t reflect well that we were entering the corner of Nicoya where paved roads don’t exist. We may not see asphalt for another week or so.
We went through a real interesting town called Islita where they have painted all the buildings and even the trees in the town. It was a really beautiful town. It took us until sunset to arrive at Coyote to set up our tent before nightfall. It was only 34 miles, but never underestimate how difficult it is to ride fully loaded road bikes on crappy dirt roads, being shaken around all day in the sun without shade. It was a rough day, but we got to this completely secluded beach and set up camp. We cooked our food for the first time using our camp stoves, and went to bed.
I walked and hitch-hiked into the nearest town to see a doctor and get some antibiotics for my leg. The team of doctors drives from pueblo (town) to pueblo to serve a whole area, so I waited 3 hours for them to arrive that day. He came over and told me that they do not have antibiotics for me, and that I need to go to the next big town to get them. A wasted day. I hitch-hiked on the back of a motorcycle to the beach and Mark and I took a sunset swim in the ocean.
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