Rio Pejibaye

Our new friend Scott (a twenty-something gringo from Colorado) is an adventure guide. He travels the world seeking adventure and leading others into it. He arrived in Turrialba a little over a week ago for his second rafting season. We've been talking about our desire to check out some white water with Scott and thanks to a very generous gift from some very awesome folks - my Uncle Rich and Aunt Donna(Thank you, very much; you'll be getting pictures from the trip as soon as we get them) - we decided we should go on an adventure before we leave Esparenza.

Scott helped us book a rafting trip with a company he works for called Costa Rican Adventures. Since this was Tiffany's first white-water experience we opted to do the Rio Pejibaye in a raft with a guide. Rio Pejibaye is a very mild river as far as white water rafting goes but it offers crystal clear water and some incredible jungle scenery along nearly the whole trip. Scott followed us in a duckie (an inflatable kayak) as our photographer and is going to be getting us the picures soon!

As my father would put it, we had blast! Tiffany enjoyed it and I think we're both ready for more. We're planning on Rio Paquiate - one of the top 5 rivers in the world - which is located on the other side of Esparenza when we return (likley in Feburary).

After our incredible river trip we went into Turriaba with a sweet bonus ride from the outfitter. Scott joined us for the afternoon of meandering the streets of Costa Rica including a very nerve-wreacking trip to the ATM (conversions are scary especially when there's an extra couple zeros, you know, just hanging out). Though Tiffany helped keep me calm and we got through it.

We also scoped out a really neat book store (which I'm sure Tiffany will want to talk about), numerous "chino stores" (cheap crap from China) a neat and somewhat out-of-place looking bar (we felt like it should be overlooking the beach and not a street in the center of Turriabla) and did some grocery shopping for our journey to Rainsong this Sunday.

The bus ride back to la finca was a little intersting because it was dark out and difficult to find our stop. Thankfully, a friend of Marcos', Santiago, was returning on the same bus!