Greetings from the rainforest.

As much as I enjoyed San Jose it was time to move on. The hostel is absolutely fabulous a and if you ever go to San Jose I highly recommend the Costa Rica backpackers inn. they have a pool, 6 computers, a restaurant that sells beer and also shows 2 movies per night. They have a common with a large tv with cable. The staff is fabulous and it is close to everything. While in San Jose I visited several museums including the National Museum. the national is interesting because it is in an old fort. You can still see the bullet holes in the outside walls from the 1948 revolution. As part of the museum they have a butterfly preserve where are 20 varieties of butterflies flying around.Really a cool place. I also went to the national Numismatic and pre-columbian gold museum. An absolutely fascinating place. Right now I am in a tiny little town named Londres (spanish for London) which is about 10 miles in from a coastal town named Quepos (pron. kaypos) I am staying at a hostel named Finca Amanecer (sunrise farm). It is the opposite experience I had in San Jose. This is not to say that San Jose was good and this is bad, just different. It is owned by an American expat named Elena Ross. She is a fabulous person and a great hostess. She has a 7 acre farm in the middle of the rainforest. The scenery here is incredible. She has given directions to several different destinations one of which was this incredible waterfall. The water was refreshing which is to say a little bit brisk but it was a great place to get naked and jump in, which I did. The place is really remote and I was the only one there. Tomorrow is whitewater rafting which I'm really looking forward to. I will report how that is later. Until then
HASTA LA VISTA BABY!