I’m Working… I Swear

I really just needed to post something so I could put up this riduculously awesome video of our off roading adventure from Tamarindo to Montezuma. By the time we got to Montezuma the hostel owner was surprised at the route we took and said “wow you guys came that way? I didn’t even know that way was passable this time of year.”

So basically yeah we’re awesome, deal with it.

Driving THrough Costa Rica in an Uninsured Rental Car from Andrew Lang on Vimeo.

When we got to Montezuma we stayed at a quaint little place called the Luna Llena. It wasn’t too bad, they had nice little cabinas with mosquito nets and a separate outdoor bathroom. It was kind of a hassle in the middle of the night when my tiny bladder would get full but it wasn’t too bad. The town was pretty cool and tiny but there wasn’t too much to do. We did find the one awesome thing though. We hiked out to a waterfall that was about 20 meters high and jumped off a ledge into it. I actually dove off the highest point which I’ve always had a fear of doing but it was a lot of fun. You were also able to crawl up behind the waterfall and dive right into it and have it push you under which was fun. I think there are some cool photos of it on Sammy’s camera. Hopefully I’ll get them when he gets back to Switzerland.

From there we drove down Manuel Antonio and we took the ferry, that was pretty rad. We got down here and this random flight attendent girl came up to us and asked us if she could come with us while we found a hostel. We’re the friendliest group of two Swiss kids and one American on the planet so naturally we said yes. She was cool, nice flight attendent. We ended up staying at the Backpackers Manuel Antonio hostel (I mostly picked it because it sounded pretty nice but it also had Wifi). There’s some pretty sick places right across the street to eat that cost almost nothing and serve a crapload of food.

We met this hilarious Chinese kid in the hostel that is practicing his Spanish here. He refuses to speak to people in english even though he knows it. He also chats up pretty much every local or person that looks like they speak spanish he sees. I kind of find that annoying but I think its funny that he does it. He’s hilarious to watch at bars. Him and the flight attendant sang horible karaoke last night which definitely cracked me up. I think that was early in the evening before she started crying about her boyfriend (or something). We definitely drunkenly meandered around town last night. I’m surprised I’m not hungover due to the 10 minute consumption of a bottle of Flor de Cana at the hostel while playing “table football” and the subsequent drinking of the flight attendants free ladies night drinks at the first bar. Actually now that I think about it I didn’t pay for a single drink last night. Fucking win.

At some point we met some pretty cool girls from San Diego who are staying at the other hostel, Vista Serena, which is where our other buddies are staying. We also ended up being introduced to a couple of nice local girls who were really sweet. We went with them back to the ladies night bar and danced a little bit and talked, they gave me their phone numbers so I might call them? Why not right?

I’m fairly sure there’s some other stuff I’ve done lately but I’m probably way too hungover right now to think of it.

Now seems like as good of a time as any to be honest about the flight attendant girl. The first night we met we kind of got drunk and she was acting like kind of a whore, nothing happened really but the next day she really wanted to do this stupid visit of the Manuel Antonio park in the late morning despite how few animals everyone told her there would be. She “HAD TO SEE IT BECAUSE THIS IS HER LAST DAY HERE”. Anyway nobody wanted to go with her and I went with her since nobody else would. Worst decision ever, I was annoyed for literally 3 hours. I don’t know how someone who seems so normal and like a genuinely decent person could be so abrasive but she definitely pulled it off. After that I basically aimed to get the hell away from her as much as I possibly could until she left our hostel.

I found comfort in the fact that everyone else that met her seemed to be annoyed with her so it couldn’t possibly have just been me. She was constantly talking about volunteering in different places and how she wanted to travel to all these places and BLAH BLAH BLAH, I don’t know why it was so annoying but I wanted to decapitate her. Ok I’m done.

I’ve had a sore throat for like 4 days and I don’t know why.

I’m thinking of getting some breakfast and maybe going kayaking/snorkeling.

I’m also thinking of calling one of those Costa Rican girls… maybe its a bit early? It’s like 8 am here. They were heading back to San Jose and it would be cool to hop on the bus with them and have someone to talk to and make sure I didn’t get mugged. Or I could just see them later?

Definitely meeting some cool people, weird people, and shitty people on this trip. Which is cool.

That girl yesterday said something about some book called “The Secret” I immediately came to the conclusion that it sucked because I remember my mom tried to give it to me a few years back and I started reading it and it just seemed like total obvious bullshit. Anyways she started summarizing it and basically said that life is good when you think positively about what you want, then those things will come to you? Something like that. I prefer my method which is totally opposite… don’t think about what you want, want nothing, and you are never disappointed or unsatisfied. Anything good that happens is a pleasant surprise and you appreciate it more. I don’t know that just seems to be working out for me thus far.

I’m getting a little tired of the question “how long are you here for?” or, the one from back home “when are you coming back?”

Piss off?

PEACE.