My REI Adventures' Costa Rica Tropical Adventure

Click to see my trip photos:

1. Photo stop, 20 min from the top of Irazú looking toward Cartago (Sunday, 1/18/98)
2. Irazú Volcano caldera (Sunday, 1/18/98)
3. Irazú Volcano caldera (Sunday, 1/18/98)
4. Preparing our bikes, top of Irazú Volcano (Sunday, 1/18/98)
5. Alex, giving instructions (Elaine, Chuck, Alex, Paul, Jerry) (Sunday, 1/18/98)
6. Snack time, village square, Santa Rosa (Sunday, 1/18/98)
7. On my bike, in front of a village church (Monday, 1/19/98)
8. Ruins of church Ujarrás, Ujarrás Valley (Monday, 1/19/98)
9. Home-cooked Costa Rican lunch (Monday, 1/19/98)
10. Taking a break beside a river (Monday, 1/19/98)
11. Cooling off in the river (Monday, 1/19/98)
12. Group photo, end of the bike ride (Monday, 1/19/98)
    Back row: Phyllis, Bob, Heather, Chris, Janie, Kai, Paul, Richard
    Front row: Ernie, Jerry, Chuck, Elaine, Mitchell, Judy
13. Alex and the iguana (Monday, 1/19/98)
14. Rare venomous snake (Monday, 1/19/98)
15. Heather and the boa (Monday, 1/19/98)
16. Relaxing before lunch, Pacuare River Camp (Tuesday, 1/20/98)
17. Our "hut" at the Camp (Chuck, Kai, Ernie) (Tuesday, 1/20/98)
18. At a waterfall into the Pacuare River (Tuesday, 1/20/98)
19. Chris and Heather at the waterfall Tuesday, 1/20/98()
20. Arenal Volcano from Arenal Observatory Lodge (Thursday, 1/22/98)
21. The caldera of exinct volcano Cerro Chato (Thursday, 1/22/98)
22. Arenal Volcano from trail back from Cerro Chato (Thursday, 1/22/98)
23. Cerro Chato (~3000 feet) with small farm in foreground Thursday, 1/22/98()
24. Tabacón Springs Resort (Thursday, 1/22/98)
25. Tabacón Springs Resort, Alex with Arenal behind (Thursday, 1/22/98)
26. Tabacón Springs Resort (Thursday, 1/22/98)
27. Arenal new lava flow (1991) Heather and Chris (Friday, 1/23/98)
28. Last group dinner at the Machu Pichu Janie, Heather, and Elaine (Friday, 1/23/98)
29. Last group dinner at the Machu Pichu (Friday, 1/23/98)
30. My Sansa plane to Quepos Cessna 208B Caravan I (Saturday, 1/24/98)
31. View from the El Parador Hotel dining room (Saturday, 1/24/98)
32. Sunrise at El Parador Hotel looking southeast (Sunday, 1/25/98)
33. White-faced Capuchin monkey at Manuel Antonio National Park (Sunday, 1/25/98)
34. Manuel Antonio White Beach - Beach Three (Sunday, 1/25/98)
35. The Playa Escondido overlook at Manuel Antonio (Sunday, 1/25/98)
36. Playa Espadilla Norte (the public beach) (Sunday, 1/25/98)
37. From the road to the El Parador Hotel (Monday, 1/26/98)
38. Toward downtown San José from the sundeck of Hotel Grano de Oro (Tuesday, 1/27/98)

Click to see a few of Kai's trip photos:

1. Lunch at a park (Sunday, 1/18/98)
2. Home-cooked Costa Rican lunch (Monday, 1/19/98)
3. Ernie on the road (Monday, 1/19/98)
4. Richard, Ernie, and Tito making music, "happy hour," Pacuare River Camp (Tuesday, 1/20/98)
5. Ernie, Tito, Elaine, and Richard making music, Pacuare River Camp (Tuesday, 1/20/98)
6. Still making music, Pacuare River Camp (Tuesday, 1/20/98)
7. Dinner, Pacuare River Camp (Tuesday, 1/20/98)
   Left: Ernie, Chuck, Paul, Janie. Right: Heather, Chris, Elaine.

Click to see a few of Heather's (aka "Heether") trip photos:

1. After lunch at a park (Sunday, 1/18/98)
2. Village square (Sunday, 1/18/98)
3. Heather and Ernie at a Costa Rican farm (Monday, 1/19/98)
4. Making music, "happy hour," Pacuare River Camp (Tuesday, 1/20/98)
   Other Heather, Jerry, Terry, Mitchell, Richard, Ernie, Tito's hands
5. Ernie, Tito, Kai making music, Pacuare River Camp (Tuesday, 1/20/98)
6. Ernie resting after Cerro Chato hike (Thursday, 1/22/98)

Click to see a few of Judy's trip photos:

1. Janie, Kai, and Ernie canoeing in the Cerro Chato caldera (Thursday, 1/22/98)
2. Ernie on the Cerro Chato hike (Thursday, 1/22/98)