We woke up at 4:00 in the morning to get on the plane, we went through airport  security, and then we walked half a mile to get to a food court. I got a bacon and egg sandwich. Then we went back to the seating area and got on the plane. We connected to Houston, and it was about 9:00. We got food, and then we got on the plane to Costa Rica.

When we touched down in San Jose, and the mountains looked really good against the huge city. The entire city looked like the slums – and the jungle. When we where driving through the city, the combination of rubble, graffiti, and barbed wire fences made it look like the zombie apocalypse.

When we got to the air b&b, it had an iron bar door, and then a steel door behind that. When we walked upstairs, the house door was also that combination of bars and steel doors. When we got into the house, there was a board on hinges that swung over the lock to the balcony, and our AirBnb host said that it was made to block thieves from opening the lock by reaching through the window panes. I went onto the balcony, and thought the thieves had to be pretty desperate, because there was barbed wire wrapped around the lamp post outside the balcony. The balcony was also on the second floor, with a sidewalk and a road beneath it, if the thief fell. Other than that, the house was cool and had two hammocks, which Daisy and I slept in each night. We also went to a really cute roadside restaurant called “Don Queso” where I tried a chorizo for the first time.