Do you think there is good rum in heaven? In all our travels we found the best in Nicaragua so far. It's even better than Cuban Havana Club and its called Flora de Cana. Why am I talking about rum and Nicaragua now? Must be because we are having an afternoon drink as I write this blog note!
We left San Jose for the OSA peninsula in the south west corner on CR. We took the express bus. In this case "express" meant bus rally or the bus Indy 500. Unbelievable! We travelled on top of the spine of a mountain range that runs north-south in the middle of CR, back into the cloud forest. There was a rosary hanging from the drivers mirror which was located right in front of the metal bar running vertically in the middle of the big bus windows. I started watching the rosary as it became a kind of barometer or plumb line. It was an 8 hour ride and for at least half that the rosary was at 45 degrees on either side of the metal bar. At one point it was at 50 degrees. It was a very winding road. After awhile I started to appreciate the drivers skill at handling a 50 passenger bus through this mountain pass.
At one point, after coming off the mountain road, we went thought kilometers of pineapple fields. Delmonte signs all over the place. It felt like the motherload. At that point I felt like I was on the "pineapple express". There were Super B Trains of pineapple trucks on the road. If you stuck your hand out the bus window you could have touched them. After awhile I just started looking out the window.
We are now safe and sound in Porte Jimenez. I think we found paradise. It is very hot as we are getting close to the equator now. The ocean is warm, about room temperature and calm. There are flowers, toucans, scarlet macaws, and parrots flying around town all day long. We just lay in our hammocks watching the birds fly by. It really is paradise. And, there are not a lot of tourists here, as it is not that easy to get here.
Yesterday I talked Sheila in to going on another fishing journey. We were out for the whole day and I caught my first rooster fish. I can now cross that of my list.
