PipeCarver
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Ya We had a blast, no GPS maps back then I went with maps and compass got lost a bunch and don't speak much Spanish....Amazing! My husband went to Costa Rica with our high school, senior trip I think, maybe Spanish club... either way he had an epic time climbed a volcano, swam in a jungle oasis... until they all got wasted and sent home early and he spent a month being grounded.I didn't really know him then, he was a cool kid a year ahead and I was a dorky loner... my how the times have changed us.
I mean, I'm still a huge dork, but also way cooler than I was then.
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Locals were easy to deal with though all smiles and eager to help, over eager sometimes when booze was involved lol we picked up hitch hikers in the back of the truck where ever we saw them, just to confirm the way we were going was correct. they'd just hop in the back.....no road signs except on main roads........
We picked up An old guy out in the boonies with a machete and an old cloth bag. I swear he looked like Juan Valadez himself......( old tv commercial coffee guy ) He couldn't climb into the back so my son and I hopped out and gave him a lift into the back of the truck........
No English just smiles a confirmation with a nod that we were going in the right direction and a tap tap tap with his machete on the side of the truck when he wanted out about 10 miles down the road on a real rough 4x4 only road, he disappeared into the jungle on a small path way.
Funny that one old guy still sticks in my brain, I've said since then we' pick up old Juan himself