Blog Action Day (or: Back from my honeymoon at a Costa Rican Eco-Lodge)

We arrived back in Oakland at 2am. We started our return home from the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica at 6am (local) with a stopover in San Salvador, El Salvador. I left work this morning at 7:45.

I am exhausted. I've been staring at my computer screen all day in a daze. As tired as I am, I wanted to make a small contribution to Blog Action Day about the environment.

My honeymoon at Lapa Rios is the easiest way to link my recent happenings with this blogging cause. But please excuse my crude description. Pictures and stories are to follow.

The pictures on the Lapa Rios website tell the story better than I ever can right now. In fact, pictures 3, 5, 6, and 8 on the bungalow description page show the room we stayed in. Yes, I am that lazy right now.

The highlight of the trip for me were the hikes we took in the rain forest. The first one was a night hike where we walked in and up a river. At one point we turned off our flashlights. I couldn't see a foot in front of my face. It was terrifying to have no sight, by which the noises of the night seemed to become deafening.

On the other tour on our last day, we walked down the same river, sometimes thigh-deep, to a couple of waterfalls. We climbed one and swam by the other. Words fail me now. But even if I was rested, I couldn't fully describe the beauty and power of the Costa Rican rain forest.

We received, as part of our wedding registry, a sound machine clock (that also projects the time on the ceiling!) that has a "rain forest" soundscape. It's pretty close, sans howler monkeys and those "tink" frogs. It makes me want to visit Costa Rica again soon.