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Japan Locked In
Travel Log: Day16 (7/13), Costa Rica The prime objective for the day was to book our Japan lodging. Before doing that we made some modifications to our flight to Japan since we now know our bags are over the 15ish pound limit for a carry-on. We purchased the upgraded 30ish pounds of carry-on for $152,…
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La Parada Lift Us Up Where We Belong
Travel Log: Day 15 (7/12), Costa Rica The main event today was going out to lunch at a restaurant that is either owned by, or worked at by our Airbnb host. Following the let down of sober fast food stand trip #2, La Parada was refreshing, delicious, and by comparison world ranked. We had dishes…
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Local Minimart and FAC
Travel Log: Day 14 (7/11), Costa Rica This was a pretty quiet day, and I barely left the house. In the morning all of us except BC worked out. BC doesn’t need that because his daily activity level is through the roof. The Japan search continued and my mind was much more clear on how…
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Alcohol The Taste Enhancer
Travel Log: Day 13 (7/10), Costa Rica Japan Search We are getting to the point that we need to book our first Japan Airbnb. I spent a couple hours today searching for places and it’s turning into a lot of effort like it always does. We are working within a desired range of $2500-$3500 per…
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The Best Things In Life Are Free
Travel Log: Day 12 (7/9), Costa Rica Today was the undisputed best day so far in Costa Rica, thanks to a completely free activity (aside from a $3 Uber ride). This is exactly the antidote to yesterday’s failures. The place we went to is called “El Salto” or “The Jump”. It’s a small waterfall with…
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Failures and Volleyball
Travel Log: Day 11 (7/8), Costa Rica Failures It was a day of failures and lessons learned. Lesson #1 – We aren’t professional cleaners This lesson kicked off first thing in the morning with an email from our property manager saying the new tenants thought the kitchen and bathrooms weren’t cleaned sufficiently. We put a…
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The Hunt For Our Next Lodging
Travel Log: Day 10 (7/7), Costa Rica This morning we made a trip to the grocery store and came back with a pretty decent haul for $60. We spent the rest of the day searching for our next location, aside from a nap, duolingo, and an improvised rock throwing game. The urgency to book our…
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La Fortuna Waterfall – A Torrent of People And Money
Travel Log: Day 9 (7/6), Costa Rica Ride Shares Today we went to the La Fortuna waterfall which is only a couple miles from our Airbnb. Rather than attempting to walk on the roads with no shoulder, we opted for Uber. This was our first experience with Uber in the country. After using it, it’s…
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Never Run In La Fortuna
Travel Log: Day 8 (7/5), Costa Rica Morning JC and I run every Saturday almost like clockwork. Like any Saturday we gave it a try today. My plan was to run to a gym in La Fortuna, and if the run there didn’t work out, we could run at the gym. This is one of…
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Chocolate, Coffee, Friday Afternoon Club
Travel Log: Day 7 (7/4), Costa Rica Morning We had an 8am chocolate/coffee tour which started our day. It was within walking distance which made it easy. The tour was really good, but it’s more about providing info than endless amounts of chocolate and coffee. I had the equivalent of about a cup of coffee,…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
