Costa Rica Excursion Part 3: Playa Hermosa

(Saturday 28 October 2006-Sunday 29 October 2006)
We took an hour-long bus ride from Liberia to a beach called Playa Hermosa. We found a hospedaje right on the beach and then headed out to enjoy the ocean and the sand. I don’t think Rob quite understands my obsession with the ocean—how I could have spent days or weeks there just trying to soak it up. I know I live on a volcanic island in the middle of a lake that looks like an ocean, but still—nothing can compare to the green, gray, blue, and gold of the real thing. Despite being sunburned and waterlogged, I wasn’t ready to leave on Sunday afternoon. I consoled myself by planning other beach trips to take in the future.



We headed back to Liberia on Sunday night and got ready for our departure from Costa Rica the next morning. The hospedaje we stayed at had a TV, and Rob was pleasantly surprised that a 3-hour “Maratón de los Simpson” (Simpons Marathon) was on that night. By this point, I had almost gotten used to the Northamerican-ness of Costa Rica, and I wondered if heading back home to Nicaragua would require a period of readjustment all over again. More than that, I was dreading the trip back for fear that we would be detained or thrown in jail or have a huge fine to pay for our passport anomaly. Luckily, I was so tired from our action-packed trip that I could not lay awake all night worrying.