Day 39

I was freezing on the night bus back to Guatemala City. However, no motion sickness and all considered I had a decent night sleep.  All my years of experience getting as much sleep possible through the night on a tour bus with drum corps paid off.  We arrived back in Guatemala City at about 5:30am.  We waited at the bus stop until it was light then set out to explore Zona 1 of the city for a bit.

First stop breakfast.  Then as we were walking we came across a secondary school teacher who wanted to practice his English.  We went, once again, into a cafe and chatted with him for a bit until it got awkward when he asked for school supplies for his classroom.  He then went on his way and we made our way to the Central Park where the palace was located.  From there we went to, yet another cafe, to access some wifi before our flight to Costa Rica.

Not too much to report about the flight, other than April being unable to find us seats in economy so having to pay for business class tickets but also getting a meal service along with that.  Once at the airport in San Jose our ride wasn't there and we ended up having to work with one of the people bugging us for giving rides at the exit to the airport.

Our taxi driving was pretty crazy, yelling at other drivers, someone on the phone, or telling us his strong opinions about things.  Our hostel was an interesting old house and we got an upgrade out of the dorms to a private room in another part of the house.

After we settled, we went out for a bit in search of cough medicine for me (I still haven't been able to completely shake this virus from last week) and an ATM.  The streets of San Jose were quite lively and much more diverse race wise (even a small little Chinatown) than anywhere in Guatemala.  There were several pedestrian walkways where hordes of locals were just hanging around.