I am in Costa Rica. What a trip, oh I am in for it. I love the beautiful women in nice places. Mexican soap opera hot chicks.

First thing you see is mountains everywhere. And there are hardly any scummy looking people (in the airport). Irode on a plane with all these Abercrombie Fitch people, on a company trip. They blabbed the whole way how much success they have.

The highways, are strange
then you see cars so tiny they are the size of a person, speeding, almost killing people. Funny. There are carss from 50 years ago brand new. I see tiny mini trucks too. The kind I saw in Switzeralnd.

You see lots of green grass, with litter. That is so shocking to an american, Litter.

My hotel is across from a Pizza Hut so I feel somewhat safe. Joke.

I was at an office and I heard loud noises. It was rain. Everything here is roofed with tin, even the fancy joints. SO wen it rains it sounds like hammers. Frightened me, but I love all this different stuff.

I really appreciate my life back home. Here I am wearing 400 sunglasses feeling guilt when I see how people have so little, I mean, really little. I drove by villages of shacks. Tin shacks. Villages.

Everywhere I go guys stare at me like this holy princess. I wore a kimono dress and have brown hair. At the airport I was too scared to ask for a taxi. I prepaid with some lady who gave me a slip. I had no idea how much to tip, because I don´t know the exchange so I just give change.

I was here before so I know a little of where I am.

I went into a supermarket and almost panicked. There is not one american thing except coke and razors. Even the tupperware is ool. It´s like a museum. It´s cool. It is, I like it.

I bought a knife, grapes, watermelon and some avocados. I have no idea when people tell me the total, the money is so different, in COLONES..what to give. I ask them for help. I offer 50 dollars for something that costs 5 and I get help. Nice people


next day

The fruit here is so good. I am going to the volcanos today. The guys here so handsome, in all the restuarnts, bringing my papya smoothies and plates of chopped soft bananas and pineapple that is white and water.

I got fresh squeezed oj on a street and a coconut cracked open on the next one. I feel good. I do

I am a little tired so I am going to my room

Lastnight I ate a watermelon and two seconds ants came. I watched Project Runway, a really good show..it was in English but subtitled

I get excellent service here, people are so kind and they look nice. It´s like moving a city full of the cosby´s , or the full house family into overtown.

I went to a park and heard a school band play, I went to a musuem.


9-9

http://www.tabacon.com/

I jusr came back from a very exclusive resort deep in the heart of Costa RIca called La Tabacon. It is two hours across the country. Mountains and different cities pass by, all unique. I even passed by the coffee plantations that give coffee to starbucks in Naranjo, CR.

When I got to Tabacon, I was so impressed. It was high class. Service and everything. I needed a bathing suit and it was 100 dollars, for Costa Rica, that is very high... I have a new body now.  I swam in geothermal steaming hot waterfalls. It was all maniucured and well groomed with fancy looking decorations.
I saw Toucans. There is a giant volcano in the sky out my bedroom window. Called Arenal. It is one of the leading hotels of the world. I took so many photos. I was in paradise. I never felt so safe.

There was a giant volcano, ominous and foggy, out my window as I went in a jacuzzi, hot tub, my room had TWO and one of the had windows that opened into the forest, the other the volcano.. and I saw Freaking Toucans !! Out my window.

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I bought a huge bag full of lychees. It was a beautiful ride today. Many villages, and coffee plantations. Vultures perched on tree fences in foggy rainy rainforest mountains. I also took photos and bought strange fruits. I felt so beautiful swimming in steaming waterfalls at night. They also had steaming pools with bars you can sit at in the hot water with tourists. Everybody is so kind. The food I ate was a work of art, fruit salads from heaven. And they have the most delicious papaya and strawberry smoothies with starfruit to decorate.

I saw many flowers, Hydrangeas. I saw papaya and coconut trees bearinbg three times the fruit I see in Miami. Costa Rica has no army. They are very safe and well educated country. The driver told me Mel Gibson bought a place here, I am not impressed though. I saw school children with uniforms of black strecth pants and white tshirt.

I went to an art museum. It was nice. It used to be in the old airport.

Oh I wish I could post my photos but I woñt for a while. SUch luxury, well manicured and well groomed places. The bamboos and the grasses as tall as buildings and little huts selling strange fruits and masks.

Costa Rica, waking up in paradise, there is no worries or cares, I am just in paradise. That was me this morning. Breakfast was fruit at the breakfast buffet by a really beautiful pool. There was everything in the buffet, just like at The Biltmore´s Buffet back home. The fruit is so good and the orange juice tastes like grapefruit.

Last night I watched a handsome couple caress and take photos, sexy ones, of each other in the steaming waterfalls and I watched them make out, it was waterfalls that were hot. You could go under the waterfalls in a little rock room. You stepped on rocks and grass, forgetting it was a real part of nature and not a man made hot tub... There were lighted paths in the jungles and more steamy falls and rivers. There were giant trees and huge hallaconias. Large purple flowers and those edible flowers all over the ground. You could hide in the water, hide in the jungles, walk down paths and be alone in many pools along the way..

There was a spa there too and lotuses floated in water pools. This place had high security and we all had to wear bracelets.

I watched a movie in bed last night, it was a queen size bed next to a mosquito proof wooden window. It was called Pursuit of Happyness. So Hollywood and so dramatic.

Today in Costa Rica it is ¨childrens day¨like we have mothers day or fathers day, so all these kiddies are riding horses and there are balloons and music and clowns. YOu see horses on the streets too and you see people walking alongside dangerous winding roads with lots of traffic.

The houses vary from tin house cities, to colorful ones. San Jose is not that pretty but very large. San Ramon is smaller version. Naranjo is cute. The nicest buildings here are churches and when they have mass entire city squares are filled up with people. There are weird stores with bags of fruit hanging and straneg pastries. >Everything is hand painted and there is alot of aluminum siding.

I tried some weird oily fruit, I no like. There is alot. You can get anything here for pennies.

I just ate maybe 10 lbs of lychees. hahaha. Speaking of which I should go out and get some food soon for late snacking.

I had such a great time. I did. I leave Tuesday, I am up for another adventure. Tonight I am in bed reading books or walking around town looking for stuff to do.



9/10

Last night I walked all over San Jose. The Boulevard full of shops. I noticed alot of people on the streets selling lottery tickets pinned down to a table. They scream out numbers in loud voices. They looked scummmmmy to me. dirty tshirts, missing teeth, wild hair..

 I looked at all the faces. None impressed me. All the stores were honestly not good enough to be in the cheapest mall of Miami. The high class places were like beneath stores like Tello´s in the USA. But I made the best of it. I went into a pharmacy and saw millions of cough syrup and aspirin on the counter. I went downtown and there was some nice buildings with statues from an era a long time ago. Gardens with flowers. Along the Boulevard there were statues of really monstrous fat people. SOme artists think that is beautiful. I don´t

I saw something that I never saw before in my life and I had to walk back, I did not believe it.

I saw these two guys, in the rain, by the way, sitting, like bums do in NYC or something...but they were going though a garbage stolen from a version of KFC store. They were snarfing up leftovers and pieces of chicken were hanging from their mouths like slime. one was going through every container and stuffing, as fast as he can, ANYTHING..I mean, it is HOT in Costa Rica and that is a fast food garbage can..their faces looked black. They were young, one could have been a girl. I mean, that is beneath anything I have ever seen, DEVOURING fast food garbage can on a hot day? In Front of everyone and not stopping, eating anything slimy, not caring what it is.

I wanted to walk up to them and laugh, because they were being a little bit too dramatic, maybe looking for sympathy, but it was disgusting. They moved their heads like shaky animals. Diving through boxes, making a mess of the sidewalk, looking for leftovers in greasy containers. I walked back, but lost interest. Like cockroaches. Evil, Pure evil.

Then I saw another guy, in the rain, under a staircase with a plastic bag as a blanket, under a staircase but by his head there was apuddle of water. I stopped, I wonder if he was dead. How can you sleep like that. Puddle next to your eye in the mud.

When I got to my hotel, I realized my hotel is in a nice part of town compared to that. I had to stay here to be close to the Dr. I was seeing. San Jose, not the best part of Costa Rica, everyone will tell you that but it has nice barrios, ancient ones for sure. You just have to get used to a different level here and then you are ok.

I had fresh squeezed OJ in my room. I mashed up avocado and tomato rolled with romaine last night. I have a big papaya I can blend in my little blender. They have american plugs here.

The girls in the stores are not friendly and you have to pay for plastic bags and put the groceries in yourself.





9/11

I had an appt with the dentist. They said they would pick me up. WOw, dentists that pick you up?

Guess what, a handsome driver and a limo came. A real limo!! In Costa Rica that is a big deal. I mean, I was really impressed. Dentists that pick you up in a limo? They are called Dentavac, by the way. They take dental tourism very seriously here. .

I got taken to Escazu. It is very¨* upscale * part of CR. I was so happy to see Americans, fancy restaurants, organic Markets and nice houses. I saw Porsche SUV´s and all luxury cars. I felt safe, like I was at home. Nice to see Americans. Good Americans with good values.

The cars here don´t have mufflers and all spit out toxic black smoke. It is really disgusting. I had to breathe it while walking around. I took a cab home and we were stuck in traffic. He wasa hispanic and had jerri curls. He was laughing at some radion station and repeating little sayings on commercials. It smelled like hell´s gas tank. The traffic, and the pollution. You can see black smoke shooting at people walking on the sidewalks from trucks.


 My limo driver is Luis Chichilla . He asked me every kind of personal question. I answer like an open book. Its better to tell people what is on your mind always. His card said ¨If 2 can you can 2¨ I do not know what that means. He told me so many Americans move here to Escazu, he does not like it. I stopped talking to him after he said that. He is lucky Americans come, make his country better and give him a job.

I saw golf courses and 100,000$ condos buildings. I saw real clean healthy people.

WHen I was at this awesome market, just like at home with neo hippies and everything, a bug crawled on me. I threw it off me and saw something gold. I reached down and the bug was GOLD: Like a necklace trinket or piece of earring. a gold bug. How cool is that?

I got COCO FRIOS, coconut water out of the shell chilled, and two pineapple and ice water shakes. For dinner, I had lots of avocado, garlic, and tomato roll ups. I ate garlic to fight infection from the dentist. I also blended papaya and Oj I squeezed with my hands.

It didñt go too well the dentist. I am coming back in 6 months. My last dentist, at home in Miami, screwed up and my jaw bone needs to heal. That will take 6 months. My teeth are beautiful now, and very white all over and no more metal. All for one third the price I pay in USA.  My dentist will be in CR from now on. I recommend medical tourism to anybody who wants anything done. Good job.

I will post photos soon.


Even though Escazu is high class it was not near as nice as the mediocre parts of coconut grove in Miami. Lots of pollution from the cars. Why do they not have mufflers in other countries?


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I value myself. I value beauty. I value love. I value beautiful things.

I thought alot tonight. I am alive with everyone else and we are all growing up together. We are all experiencing the same things, at times. We all understand.

Life is so valuable. Death, it is something like being under anesthetic, we will never feel it. I wouldnt know, or do I know death personally? 

I need to choose my thoughts better, I need to choose in every moment good, and life. I need to love the me that lived a lifetime. Imagine all your life with you there. Wow.

I will try to sleep. I will try to have a little death in consciousness. Night day good evil. Does that mean I am always choosing day if I choose good? I like night. I like forgetting. I like dreaming, actually, I dont think I like to dream , it´s always my mind thinking about something trivial in sleep.



9/12

I am going home today. To Miami. I am walking around in a black silk dress. I looked all up and down Paseo Colon for coco frios or fresh squeezed OJ but I think it is too early for the street vendors. I went upstairs in my hotel Ambassador and had a free breakfast. Its buffet and they have fruit platters. I had papaya, pineapple and watermelon, with seeds. I watched a spanish tv kids drawing show at the bar. The bartender girl in a bartending tuxedo outfit asked me if I wanted any eggs. I said no. No thanks, my stomach can´t take it. It literally can´t.

Last night I woke up every hour to drink water. All that anesthesia. 2 am 3 am 4 am etc..at 9 am I stopped drinking and could not sleep again so I showered and left.

I asked the guy at the front desk to call me a cab at 11 am. For 18 us dollars he will take me to the airport. I hope his car has a seatbelt and there is no traffic. I was so scared at my cab driver last night. No seatbelts and there were big busses that pulled out in front of him.

Last night there was a big fat guy at the hotel  internet. I was confused. If you know someone is waiting for the internet would´nt you get off it? I waited 45 minutes sitting there until I finally said something and he told me to give him 15 minutes which turned into 30 and then he stood there waiting for me to be done. He was chatting online at a hotel computer. Lame, unless he is begging for forgiveness or a plane ride home, I forgive him.

It is sunny out today, then it will rain later as always. When it rains here, it rains for 6 to 7 hours straight. >In Miami its maybe a half hour at most. Cars drive by and you get splashed if you are on the sidewalk with muddy waters. Wait, there is no sidewalk in most streets of Costa Rica, what am I talking about..

This hotel Ambassador is really nice, it´s from the 60´s I think with the decorations and architecture. Very clean and the service is amazing.

My flight leaves soon so I am going to grab a nap and then pack. I have an hour. I miss home and I miss my apartment., I miss it. I am so glad to come home..