Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Tuesday and Travel on the Gold Coast

my friend, jen, who's been visiting for two weeks, trying to decide if she wants to move here, got dropped off at the small (nay, tiny) tamarindo airport today, assuming, as we all generally would, that she would get on a plane, fly to san jose and connect with her next flight. now, i, living here, should have known that something was amiss when we drove up with less than 15 minutes before her flight was to leave, and found no plane and very few people waiting. but such are the vagaries of teeny tiny third-world airports in the middle of what five years ago was nowhere and is now still not much more than heading towards somewhere. so about three hours and several misdirections and excuses later, her airline informed her that they were cancelling all flights to san jose, and she returned, rather happily i might say, to our house, where she proceeded to unpack, take a shower and head out for a date.

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