February 19, 2014
Arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica via a stop overnight in Miami. The sun is shining with a gentle breeze and the skies are blue blue. We missed doing our blog during our November India trip, we may reconstruct it someday, but here we are trying to keep up with this trip. This is a National Geographic/Lindblad trip. We went with them to the Baja with Scott and Debbie and to the Galapagos. Small boats, great guides and naturalists, wonderful trips. We are doing a pre-trip extension in Monteverde Cloud Forest which is an acclaimed private reserve. To quote NG, “there is an aura about Monteverde’s Cloud Forest—the mist drifting past silhouettes of magic trees, the cool quiet and the haunting music of a bird called ‘solitaire’.” We can’t wait to see it all. It is also home to 300 species of orchids and the skywalk, which Nancy is working up all her courage to try and do. Encouragement welcome. Tonight we have a welcome dinner and tomorrow is a five hour drive to begin this part of the adventure.
The map does not show the extension to the cloud forest but puts you in the right territory.
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