This the story of Pete on his Costa Rica tour for some surf, but in his blog he describes a total different story: waiting for a bus in Jaco, he leaves his bags with his buddy:

“It is scorching hot and I am sweating buckets so I decide to cross the road to the supermarket to buy water. I tell jb and leave the bags with him, as I am about to leave a local lady knocks my boardbag over, she apologises and I put it back in place. As I cross the road I see her talking to jb, it seems she needs some help, I chuckle to myself as I know jb’s grasp of Spanish is a about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Something should have clicked in my head then, the signs were there but I had perhaps let my guard down being in a familiar place. That was the first time I had let my small day bag be in public and out of my grasp since arriving in Costa Rica, it contained my passport and RTW ticket, my Ipod and digi camera and other stuff less valuable but still important for my trip. I never saw it again…”

This happens every day - so take care and never leave your bags anywhere!

Read the complete story here

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We collected some travel stories from the Web for you in this post.

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Everybody who is interested in surfing in Hawaii and don’t know where to start, maybe you should read the surf vacation report by Amos Kentos of Livesurftravel. Interesting blog posts about waves, culture, costs and and other parts of Hawaiian surf myth.

Pictures are included in some posts, and also some personal tipps for tours and spots.

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José recalls his favorite surfer settings in South Florida - pickin’ up his gear in the morning twilight, racing to the beach and jumping in a thick wetsuit into the water:
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Heather, columnist from New York and self-declared feminist, reports about her Costa Rica vacation in her blog “This fish needs a bicycle”:

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Debbie, a traveller in Central America describes the border crossing between Nicaragua and Costa Rica in her blog:

“The crossing was a piece of cake, made even easier by a traveling companion I picked up in Rivas. […]. The walk across the border was longer than I expected. What I thought would be a definite line…one step in Nicaragua, the next step in Costa Rica…was actually quite a distance that´s quite difficult to describe because there were several buildings and people all around and it wasn´t quite clear when we actually arrived in Costa Rica. The walk took several minutes and once we arrived at another building we had out passports stamped…again…and our luggage was searched before we were allowed onboard the express bus to San Jose. 84 years later we arrived in San Jose.“

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Traveler Nicole Beckley from San Francisco went to Costa Rica for some adventure and to see an active volcano. And she brought back a ton of memories; she shared some with the San Francisco Chronicle:

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For a sport that is most popular in places of perpetual summer, like Southern California and Hawaii, New England may not seem like a hotspot for surfing, especially in the winter. But surf club president Nick Perold ´07 and his team make the best of it.

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George, a traveller from the US, gives us an impression what Costa Rica is all about for those who don’t surf or need ideas for alternatives:

“In Costa Rica, the Spanish phrase ¡Pura vida! is the national saying, a catchall phrase that means “the good life.'’

We first experienced its meaning in Vega, a lazy town perched on a winding mountain road on the edge of a cloud forest at the start of an eight-day, cross-country car trip.

Vega sits high above a valley filled with billowing clouds that shroud the majestic Volcán Arena, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, which daily erupts lava and stones the size of SUVs.

At dusk, golden sunlight illuminated the clouds in a visual masterpiece. It was as if the clouds were filled with a prehistoric light, almost as if a dinosaur might emerge from the flora and fauna, where colorful birds and howler monkeys make their presence known.“

Read the complete article here… 

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We found the travel blog of Emmett and Rory travelling through Costa Rica. Parts of their travel went through the Nicoya peninsula. Here a short summary.

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