Nosara

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

— Walt Disney Company Heaven knows after the last few days, I have faced some adversity.  I am trying to bloom!!   Jacob helped me keep it all in perspective today.  He reminded me about when he moved to the Oregon coast and moved into a warehouse with no kitchen, no running water, air mattress for a bed, no bathroom.  So moving into this house here is luxury to him.  We have flushing toilets, all kitchen appliances, beds, swimming pool, showers, washer and dryer, and yes, thank you God, air conditioning.  J  So we are doing fine.   So we can definitely bloom in this fertile soil of blessings.   We worked a deal with Carlos at Safe Car Rental.  Since we paid $50.00 to fix the car and lost a lot of time for the repair, we agreed we could keep the car one more day.  Another blessing because everything is very spread out here.  It is also very rural, all dirt/gravel roads so it is difficult to get around.  There is a bus that runs through every 2-3 hours but we don’t know the bus schedule or where anything is at.  So we had the chance to drive around a bit and get a little idea where we are and where things like little stores are.  The stores are called supers.  I guess like supermarket.  There is a tiny one close to us but the bigger one is about 3 miles away.  And that one is not very big with not very much selection and very high prices.  A dozen eggs is $3.00 which is pretty comparable to the US but they are a lot smaller.  We bought almost a pound of cheddar cheese, which was imported from Panama.  It was almost $12.00.  If you can buy local comparable food, it is a lot less expensive.  Anyway, we got a few groceries.  Stopped by a little fruit stand and got a great deal on bananas, papaya, mangos, pineapple for only $6.00 so it works out pretty even in the end.  And the fruit is delicious!!  The tomatos here have tougher skins but they have so much more flavor than back home.    We found the little airstrip.  Planes actually fly into Nosara from San Jose and from Nosara to various locations.  So if you ever fly into San Jose and want to fly to Nosara instead of doing the 5 ½ hour drive, you can take a one way flight for around $90.00 and only take 2 ½ hours.  We couldn’t resist going to a couple beaches.  We hung out at Playa Paleda, which was just down the road about ¼ miles.  Jacob climbed a coconut tree and got a few coconuts for us but when we got them back, two had holes in them and the one we got coconut water from was pretty green.   We went to Playa Guioness too.  We drove there but later found out that you can just walk on a trail through a few bushes over to Playa Guioness from Playa Paleda.  There is more activity and business around Playa Guioness, the beach is more wide open and larger but we didn’t think it was as pretty as Playa Paleda.   As we look out our back door, we are drooling and yearning to get out to the pool.  However, there are metal bars outside the sliding glass doors and we don’t have the keys to unlock the bars.  We asked the property manager for the keys but she doesn’t have them.  She is going to try to get them for us but she is leaving to move back to the US tomorrow and is not motivated to help us in any way.  She has been basically a bitch to deal with.  She and her partner are moving back to Philadelphia, which is a good thing.  I think she will fit right in back there with her awful attitude.  We are hoping the new property manager is nicer.  She gets into town tomorrow.   I wouldn’t say I am blooming yet, but I think I am in the budding stage.  At least we weren’t close to dying today.