Just a quick note to let everyone know that I landed in Costa Rica and everything is fine. flight from Miami was quick, 3 hours. We spent one night in a town, alajela near the airport and then took a taxi with a nutjob driver from belgium named Oliver who zipped us up here in 2 hours for 10 bucks : normally on the bus it is 6 bucks for a 5 plus hour trip : this morning up into the highlands to a town called La Fortuna right at the base of a large active volcano,
Arenal. it is really beautiful. the weather is realtively cool. it rained a bit last night, but today is spectaclur and the volcano which normally is sheathed in clouds is totally visable. if we are lucky, it will stay like that tonight and we can see some of the lava flows.

so far, so good.

[ this damn keyboard is not working right and i cant get caps or most punctuation, for that matter