Before we bury you all photos of birds and sloths, we think its really important to take a moment and thank the two guys without whom we wouldn't have seen a fraction of the things we did.
Our driver Nicolas (left) and our guide Mario (right) did everything they could, every single day, to make our trip unforgettable. They were both endlessly patient with our requests to stop along every roadside to take photographs and answer all our questions about nature, politics, geography and their country. Having worked together many times over the years, they joke around together like a pair of brothers and quickly got a group of strangers laughing and chatting along with them.
Our transportation throughout the trip was this little while bus which are quite common sights as tourist vehicles in Costa Rica. It carried all of us, along with our assorted gear, up hill and down dale from the ocean shore to the heights of the cloud forest. Weirdly enough (though not shown from this angle) there is a driver-side door, but the front seat on the right has to be reached by getting in the side door and then vaulting over a platform and into the seat.
There were 6 of us at our peak and there aren't too many photos of the lot, but I was very happy that Mario had a fellow guide take this picture of us all during our first hike in Cahuita national park. From left to right we have Lisa, Sue, Sam, Mario, Kathryn, Janet and George.
Lisa and Janet were a daughter-mother team from California and Michegan. Sam and Sue were a son-mother team from Montana. Both mothers were very keen on botany and knew a lot about the various plants and flowers of the country. Lisa and Sam were both young and funny folks. We had a great little group and each of them has a special place in our memories of our time in Costa Rica.
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