Onwards to Monteverde...

The first one was finding Monteverde and doing the ZIPLINES!!!

Monteverde proved to be quite the trip. The night before I had arranged online to stay in the hostel, Sleepers Sleep Cheaper, with Ronnie and his family. Much to my surprise after a looooong and dusty trip up some winding roads, we hopped off the bus and suddenly I hear my name being called. I am strangely confused since I thought I had left the only country that knew me well and suddenly here I was with some stranger asking the crowd if Megan was here. So without further ado I raised my hand and said, "Me llamo es Megan... y tú?" Turns out it was Ronnie, the owner of the hostel, here with curbside service to take us back to his hostel. It was pretty rad. We had picked up two more travelers in route on the bus, one a however-old guy named Neil who was awesome and a male Japanese student, Akira. My gift back to Ronnie for his curbside was the addition of two more guests in his hostel. Fun how that sort of stuff works out. Both Neil and Akira were interested in joining us on the ziplines and so we had it all arranged and had a great day zipping between amazing mountain ridges. The views from the ziplines were absolutely OUT OF THIS WORLD.



The cloud forest was full of 300+ year old trees and some of the most lush colors in the world. We had to work for the adventure in some moderate climbs, but it was worth every penny and every step. Joanie and I both would love to do this over again and maybe try and film some of the adventures with the help of the wonderful guides! Later that night we relaxed, took showers and all four of us went out to dinner at a neat little restaurant and had some enlightening, exciting, and interesting conversations.


The people and experiences shared during my travels have been some of the best memories I will carry on. There really are so many different people here in the world, all of us just tryin' to get by, the only way they know how...