We’re in now in the rain forest in La Fortuna, Costa Rica. Today we took a tour down the San Jaun river and spotted all sorts of critters, various birds, a two toed sloth, monkeys (cappuchin, howlers), mini-gators, and various other indigenous species. Now I’m hammering away at a keyboard in an Internet cafe, [...]
Hooray, we have arrived.
We awoke at 3:00AM, departed home at 4:00, arrived in Grand Rapids at 5:30, spent an extra hour getting out of G.R. (de-icing, ground delay), and arrived in Atlanta an hour late. We still had an hour and our Atlanta to San Juan flight was picture perfect. We’re now enjoying [...]
Departing December 23, 2004:
GRR -> ATL - Delta #4089 (6:45 AM)
ATL -> SJO - Delta #375 (1:41 PM)
Returning January 6, 2004
SJO -> ATL - Delta #564 (3:00 PM)
ATL -> GRR - Delta #4227 (11:54 PM)
Today I learned why it’s a good idea to have the little plastic shields over your natural gas meter. We were down in Marshall at Mike Surls birthday party over the weekend. Around 7pm we arrived home to find the temperature in the house a tad bit chilly at 38�. I paid a visit to [...]
Today I ran into a swarm of giant, red crossed mosquitos. They’re a fairly popular variety and appear in waves. I don’t see anything for a couple months and then boom, there’s an entire swarm. They call, they send me postcards, fridge magnets, and when I walk in the door, they swarm around me. They [...]
A city fellow was invited to spend a weekend at a friend’s farm. Several things were new to the city fellow, but the strangest thing he saw was a pig with a fancy artificial limb. When asked about it, the farmer replied “That is no ordinary pig. Last year our house caught fire while we [...]