Waking up in Costa Rica I decided to call the writings that follow my Costa Rica trip the Karma Trips. Karma runs on positive energy, and in my world, being kind.
As I was boarding my late night flight down to Costa Rica, I found that they had given my seat away. I patiently and tiredly waited and then talked to a lovely stewardess who placed me in another seat with copious amounts of leg room - excellent.
Though I was now wide awake, I was planning to soon use this extra leg room to crash and take a good sleep. However, I overhead a very tall couple contemplating an issue of extra leg room they had paid for; their seats had also been given away... and so sadly, on their honeymoon none the less, they were being broken up into different seats. I thought "hey I am short, I don't need the extra leg room and my seat is a bit closer to one of their seats," so I gave my new seat up to one of them. Interestingly when I had done this a couple of other empathic people on flight also decided to help rearrange seating so that this couple could have seats with extra leg room together. I now found myself sitting next to a really cute guy; score!
As I was boarding my late night flight down to Costa Rica, I found that they had given my seat away. I patiently and tiredly waited and then talked to a lovely stewardess who placed me in another seat with copious amounts of leg room - excellent.
Though I was now wide awake, I was planning to soon use this extra leg room to crash and take a good sleep. However, I overhead a very tall couple contemplating an issue of extra leg room they had paid for; their seats had also been given away... and so sadly, on their honeymoon none the less, they were being broken up into different seats. I thought "hey I am short, I don't need the extra leg room and my seat is a bit closer to one of their seats," so I gave my new seat up to one of them. Interestingly when I had done this a couple of other empathic people on flight also decided to help rearrange seating so that this couple could have seats with extra leg room together. I now found myself sitting next to a really cute guy; score!
I knew he was cute from a glance, but would feel uncomfortable blatantly staring at him, so instead I took to glancing at the paper he was reading, which, though not in English, I could see was about cinema and media. It was obviously a masters thesis or essay of sorts. And, I soon found myself asking my cute seatmate if he was in the middle of his masters. No, he said, he wasn't, but his friend was, and he was reading over the paper... Lucky me!! A few minutes later this young man from Amsterdam and I were bonding over Scotch and discussions of life, travel, and media. Upon landing in San Jose at about 2 am, he mentioned that he had no clue of his plans, accommodation or otherwise, and so we shared a taxi to a clean hostel I'd booked, and lucky for him, they had an extra bed!
I woke up to find that this hostel was very beautiful and with a lovely courtyard filled with the greenery of many lush plants. Later that morning, after some writing and sketching and downing coffee in this oasis, I found myself walking with my new found friend from the flight, Erik, thorough the surprisingly easy to navigate and safe streets of San Jose. We came upon a local panederia (bakery) and gorged on fresh local milk and coffee, empanadas, and pastries... As we continued our trek though the hilly city we saw beautiful colonial architecture, thousands of Christmas shoppers, and policemen standing in strange lookout towers scattered through the streets and watching over the crowds. And then left right and center we began to see a variety of mascot groups containing various Mickeys, Minnies, and Barneys (Yes, that big purple dinosaur), all chilling together and taking pictures with excited children. A strange combination indeed!
We kept exploring and soon came to a National Children's Museum where we morbidly wondered if taxidermy children were posed in various set up children's venues like playgrounds and classrooms. Sadly the entrance fee was quite steep and we decided to instead splurge on a tasty lunch in the local Cafe Rojo - what a great place - a green Pippi Longstocking type house with a verandah and a massive Cactus reaching up to the sky out front.
I woke up to find that this hostel was very beautiful and with a lovely courtyard filled with the greenery of many lush plants. Later that morning, after some writing and sketching and downing coffee in this oasis, I found myself walking with my new found friend from the flight, Erik, thorough the surprisingly easy to navigate and safe streets of San Jose. We came upon a local panederia (bakery) and gorged on fresh local milk and coffee, empanadas, and pastries... As we continued our trek though the hilly city we saw beautiful colonial architecture, thousands of Christmas shoppers, and policemen standing in strange lookout towers scattered through the streets and watching over the crowds. And then left right and center we began to see a variety of mascot groups containing various Mickeys, Minnies, and Barneys (Yes, that big purple dinosaur), all chilling together and taking pictures with excited children. A strange combination indeed!
We kept exploring and soon came to a National Children's Museum where we morbidly wondered if taxidermy children were posed in various set up children's venues like playgrounds and classrooms. Sadly the entrance fee was quite steep and we decided to instead splurge on a tasty lunch in the local Cafe Rojo - what a great place - a green Pippi Longstocking type house with a verandah and a massive Cactus reaching up to the sky out front.
1st sketch in Costa Rica inspired by the luscious courtyard at the first hostel.
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