Costa Rica

Hey everyone We’re baaack!!

After a week checking out Costa Rica the Motobrothers are ready to roll again! Meat on the seat this morning heading for Panama.

We did allot of fun stuff. We started with a couple of days in San Jose. A very large and somewhat boring city. Dan and Carmen split off from us and went for a bike ride and rode up Irazu volcano. My wife Lynn, sister Mary and I rented a car and headed down toward the beach city of Jaco. They had very nice beaches and your typical coastal town. We hung out there for a few days. Did some hiking and also did the canopy zip line. That was allot of fun, Mary our sister is a little afraid of heights and the guys running it had allot of fun at her expense. she did great though and we all had a great time. 

Dan and Carmen headed south from Irazu and cut down to the coast at Dominical – then took what could be the worst road we’ve ridden on since leaving home to go north to Quepos. They spent a couple nights at Si Como No resort and then a night in Jaco – before heading back north to meet up with John/Lynn/Mary.

We then headed inland to Arenal Volcano. This thing is pretty damn cool. It is one of the most active in the world. While sitting on the deck at the Observatory lodge I was watching house size boulders roll down the face. Then at night you can see bright red lava coming out of the cone. We had a great time bumping around La Fortuna. That is the city close to the volcano. We hiked down to a 600 foot water fall. Just kinda hung out. We hooked back up with Dan and Carmen. Had a nice BBQ, a few beers you know the story…

We spent a couple days hanging around Arenal and enjoyed the hot springs in the area – Baldi and Tabacon – both highly recommended.

Great to see all the girls and hope they had an awesome time in Costa Rica. After we dropped the girls off at the airport in San Jose Dan and I are back in San Jose and ready to roll south again.

Thanks to Motos Suzuki and Emilo J. Quiros, our bikes are ready to roll with new back tires and fresh oil. Emillo was great as we didn’t communicate to well and he worked with us to get the service dept to  understand what we needed. Thanks Emillo!!!!. If you ever in San Jose and need anything for a Suzuki check with Emillo at www.motos-suzuki.com – the shop is easy to find and the service was great!

Thanks to Lynn for lugging the tires to the airport and checking them as baggage. Thanks to Matt at Cycle gear for getting the tires for us and packing them up for Lynn. Thanks  to Carmen for lugging some other goodies as well – As you can imagine a trip like this is allot easier when you have great folks behind you helping out… Dan has a buddy Carlos Barrios working on the logistics on getting the bikes from Panama to South America, Thanks to him as well

Thats about it. Its 7am and  we are ready for breakfast and to get some MOTS (meat on the seat!)

And in the rain department….. Nada – no rain since leaving on Jan 13 – amazing stuff…

I think we’ll ride south…