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Just book it!

After countless years of dreaming about our epic trip that we’d go on for our 5-year anniversary, we are finally, just now, getting around to it… for our 8-year anniversary. So here we are at the end of the dry season and figured if we didn’t go now, we’d have to wait another 8-months until the wet season ends at the end of October. So we booked our flights for April. Not having any idea about our itinerary yet, only knowing we wanted to go to Costa Rica. Mountains, beaches, cliff-diving, perfect!

A couple weeks went by, then realized, our trip is only a month away, maybe we should plan something. So we put together a rough itinerary:

Arenal Volcano & La Fortuna Waterfall (2-days)
–http://www.royalcorin.com/

Puerto Viejo (2-days)
–http://www.lecameleonhotel.com/

Cerro Chirripó (2-days)
–http://hotelcasamariposa.net/

Manuel Antonio (2-days)
–http://www.lamariposa.com/

We’ll have some adventure up front, some relaxation at a Carribean beach, some backpacking to the top of Cerro Chirripó, then relax at a Pacific beach before heading home.

Now in true Maugel tradition… we need to plan where we’re going to eat. Do we go spicy? Or do we go sweet? Because we can’t live with out food. And of course in true Michael tradition, I need to find the nearest local brewery. That spanish I took to get my college diploma may come in handy. Una cerveza, por favor!

Lastly, we’ll have a rental car. Well an SUV. Ok, more like a RAV4, a very small SUV which some may mistake for a car, but should help us with the ‘rough’ roads in Costa Rica. Apparently stop lights don’t mean stop but yield, only stop lights with stop SIGNS, mean stop. This should be interesting.