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focalintentFeb 28th, 2007 @9:30pm
Full day. Woke up, slowly, to a really good breakfast and gorgeous views of clouds rolling in and out of the valley below where we stayed. After breakfast, we set off for Villa Blanca, to visit the cloud forest at Los Angeles. The drive there was easy, and beautiful. Once there, we set ourselves up with a guided tour of the forest. We saw an amazing variety of plants (a walking pine, red bananas, and various other flora).
After the tour, our guide invited us to hang out while she refilled the hummingbird feeders. We elected to spend some time in the orchid tent before making our way back. I got back just before ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elvendoll and got to see a Coati sneaking around the birdfeeders (but it ran off before i could grab my camera, which is why you just get the wiki link :). We figured we'd spend a few minutes watching and then head on our way. However, there was one hummingbird who trapped us for nearly a half hour hanging out on a branch with us. I was convinced it was going to come with us. There are some adorable pictures of elvendoll and the hummingbird as well as some other humming birds from the los angeles forest.
From there we drove back into San Ramon to get local currency and cash. It took some driving around but we were successful, and with that we hit the road to Arenal, the next part of our adventure.
I have a couple sets of photos from the los angeles cloud forest here, here, and here. For thems that prefer flickr, these photos are tagged with cloudforest on my account there.
Feb 28th, 2007 @11pm
The drive up here (to Arenal) was beautiful, and we made good time, getting up here before nightfall. Alas, Arenal was busy being shy and hiding behind a cloud. We checked in and settled into our room at Erupciones Inn where we went over our pictures from the day. A quick round of text messaging calmed some fears and pointed us at a really good restaurant for dinner.
Now, it is time to finish writing, take a long, hot bath (ed. never happened), peek to see if Arenal is still hiding (it was) and then to bed. Lots to fill tomorrow with!
5 Years. So much good there, looking forward to the next five, whatever form the take.
next time: our intrepid heros go zipping through the air and the volcano makes her presence known
Full day. Woke up, slowly, to a really good breakfast and gorgeous views of clouds rolling in and out of the valley below where we stayed. After breakfast, we set off for Villa Blanca, to visit the cloud forest at Los Angeles. The drive there was easy, and beautiful. Once there, we set ourselves up with a guided tour of the forest. We saw an amazing variety of plants (a walking pine, red bananas, and various other flora).
After the tour, our guide invited us to hang out while she refilled the hummingbird feeders. We elected to spend some time in the orchid tent before making our way back. I got back just before elvendoll and got to see a Coati sneaking around the birdfeeders (but it ran off before i could grab my camera, which is why you just get the wiki link :). We figured we'd spend a few minutes watching and then head on our way. However, there was one hummingbird who trapped us for nearly a half hour hanging out on a branch with us. I was convinced it was going to come with us. There are some adorable pictures of elvendoll and the hummingbird as well as some other humming birds from the los angeles forest.From there we drove back into San Ramon to get local currency and cash. It took some driving around but we were successful, and with that we hit the road to Arenal, the next part of our adventure.
I have a couple sets of photos from the los angeles cloud forest here, here, and here. For thems that prefer flickr, these photos are tagged with cloudforest on my account there.
Feb 28th, 2007 @11pm
The drive up here (to Arenal) was beautiful, and we made good time, getting up here before nightfall. Alas, Arenal was busy being shy and hiding behind a cloud. We checked in and settled into our room at Erupciones Inn where we went over our pictures from the day. A quick round of text messaging calmed some fears and pointed us at a really good restaurant for dinner.
Now, it is time to finish writing, take a long, hot bath (ed. never happened), peek to see if Arenal is still hiding (it was) and then to bed. Lots to fill tomorrow with!
5 Years. So much good there, looking forward to the next five, whatever form the take.
next time: our intrepid heros go zipping through the air and the volcano makes her presence known
