On a slight whim, my husband and I decided to celebrate our fourth wedding anniversary with a trip! Our destination - the land of PURA VIDA.
This was an adventure-filled, yet rejuvenating tour through such a beautiful country! Thrilling activities, interesting wildlife, delicious cuisine, gorgeous scenery, and special people made for an amazing week. The 7 days FLEW by! But you know what time does when you are having fun...
You know how there are just those people who are "automatic friends"? Caro is one of those people in my life.
What is unique about our friendship is that it started through our jobs over Skype and email. Day in and day out we were in contact - problem solving, figuring out itineraries, and discussing our fun weekends. We also bonded over our hopeless love of chocolate cake.
Another unique characteristic of this friendship - Caro lives in San Jose, Costa Rica and I am a Montanan. We expected that our conversations would forever be typed.
However, I am glad our expectations were wrong. I was able to practice my SPOKEN Spanish with Caro this past October! My husband and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Costa Rica, and we spent our last evening with my "automatic friend". We were hosted by Caro and her husband, Ale, in their San Jose home. Their sweet three-week-old daughter, Sofi, also made some appearances throughout the evening.
Costa Rica adventures (Jenny Johnston)
They SPOILED us with a meal of patacones con salsa, casado, chorreadas con natilla, empanadas, horchata, pejibaye, cas, guanabanas, torta chilena... Needless to say we were "llenos" at the end of the night. We left Costa Rica with satisfied appetites...as well as full hearts.
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Kassandra is so knowledgeable and makes appropriate recommendations for what is suitable to our needs.
customer
2 months ago
Erin is super at helping with travel, this is the second trip she has arranged for us.
BBachmayer
2 months ago
Karilyn was very helpful with suggestions and very easy to work with. She was able to combine two different trips in Costa Rica into one that seems to be just perfect for us. I recommend her highly and will hopefully do another trip she puts together for us!
David Strommen
4 months ago
It was easy and quick Love working with everyone here.
Joanne Chupein
4 months ago
Trip to Costa Rica was excellently planned and supported. They selected great hotels, and the drivers and transitions between locations went smoothly. This was our 5th trip planned by AL and they have an excellent sense of how we love adventure, comfortable with small planes to get access to more remote locations, and lots of hiking and luxurious accommodations to relax and recover.
