FATHER AND SON

 

Another scene on Playa Langosta. Dad needs to keep a careful watch among the waves and rocks. Looonnnggg day trip up into Nicaragua  today. They are picking us up at our condo at 4:15 AM. Hope we can drag ourselves out in time.                  

SURFER'S PARADISE

 

Back to our old haunts on Playa Langosta. Lots of surfing here and at next-door Playa Tamarindo.The waves are big enough to be interesting but not so much as to be dangerous - with one exception. This was shot just short of high tide. Lots of the beach has sharp, black volcanic rock, mostly submerged at this time. You really need to know where you are going or wait for low tide.               

THE BEST I COULD GET

Stefan asked for pictures of volcanoes, among other things, when we got to Costa Rica. The route into the airport at Liberia, where we always go, comes down the  western shore of Lake Nicaragua, which is pretty darn big. It contains an island with two volcanoes, the larger one called Ometepe, which last erupted in 1983.

I can usually get some good shots when we arrive early to mid afternoon. But, remember how our Friday flight was four hours late? Well, yesterday's flight was four hours late for reasons I won't begin to discuss. It was hazy and the sun was setting as we flew through here. I hope to get much better pictures Tuesday when we take a long day trip into Nicaragua.                      

IT COULD BE WORSE

 

Gate C 12 yesterday afternoon at beautiful Lambert St. Louis International Airport. (No one today knows who Lambert was.) The plan was to fly to American Airlines' biggest hub at Dallas-Ft. Worth, spend the night, and then go on to Costa Rica this morning. However, our flight to DFW was four hours late. As usual, the gate agents know nothing, see nothing and say nothing. Later, a flight attendant who worked the flight into STL said there was an air leak in the back of the that created a terrible noise. It got fixed after a long time.

Lots of people missed connections but no one freaked out. We had a hotel room waiting for us so it was okay.         

WHITE, GOLD AND OUTTA HERE

 

Maybe not the best picture from Art In Bloom, but it's a travel day. Flying today to a giant airline hub and spending the night. Saturday morning down to our home away from home in Costa Rica. I think it's +/- our twenty-third visit to the country over some decades (we obviously like it). Anybody want to see pictures of beautiful Dallas - Ft. Worth International Airport?