Costa Rica 2025

• La Fortuna: Waterfall and volcano hikes and hot springs!
• Monteverde: Ziplining through the cloud forest
• Tapirus Lodge: Trekking through the rainforest with the snakes, spiders and all the other critters there.
• Paquera: Bioluminescence kayaking, listening to the howler monkeys and chilling by the pool

• Terrain: Pavement, sand, dirt, gravel and some rocky sections with water crossings
• Weather: The heat, riding at dark, rain, pouring water out of our boots, wearing the soggy boots again the next day

• Off-Bike Highlights: Sloths, waterfall hike, the views, fireflies, facemasks, trying to cool off in the river that wasn’t cold at all
• Critters Spotted: Snakes, spiders, frogs, tapirs, sloths, howler monkeys, toucans, coatis, crocodiles

What made it tough + how it was handled: Flat tire within the first two hours, no showers at the first hotel, second flat in less than 24 hours from our embarkment, cockroaches, almost getting run over in the mud, rocky/washed out roads taking out knees, arm sized grasshoppers jumping onto your dinner table, Annie got rodeo’ed by a telephone line

• “Sandy, you can’t park there”
• “Snickers”
• “ Vaminos! One more meter, more better”
• “Hey lady, look at this…did you see it?”
• ”Sons-a-bitches”
• “Wanka”
• “Mummy”