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Costa Rica VW Vans And Crawling Things
or better or worse, man rolled into parking lot. The trip
has tamed Mother Nature in had certainly started on a sour
many countries. My general note, but we decided to cut our
impression is this isn't the case losses and take the vans.
in Costa Rica.
As we rolled out of San Jose, it
San Jose to Carrillo was starting to get dark. Unaware
that a new highway had been
Roughly ten of us had decided to opened, we followed the old route
head to Costa Rica for a week to which wound through the mountains
stay at a friend's place just and added two hours to the trip.
outside the beach town of Two hours that would haunt us for
Carrillo on the west coast. We days.
flew into San Jose and were
supposed to be met by a rental As the hours passed, we laughed
company representative that had away the time reliving the past.
two new VW vans for us. I was sitting in the back of the
van with Stuart, a nurse in San
As often happens in such Diego, and Picasso, a graphic
situations, we weren't met by designer for surf clothing
anyone much less a person with companies. We were all in shorts
vans. Calls were made but not and flip flops, which was
answered. Lunch was had. Calls appropriate for the heat and
were made again and finally humidity. How I wished I had worn
answered. After a bit of pants and boots.
"intense" conversation, we were
told the vans would be at the As we drove along, we happened to
airport in 15 minutes. Roughly come upon a little village.
two hours later, two VW vans Little cafes and stores passed us
apparently stolen from Woodstock as we drove down the road. So did
street lights. Bright street
lights. Street lights that lit up Our driver whipped over to the
the inside of the van. side of the road to find out what
the heck was going on. The other
And the things in it. van pulled over as well and
discovered they had a cockroach
Cockroaches. Big cockroaches. problem as well. We were
They were climbing on the walls apparently driving the hive
of the van and across the floors. around the country.
A few even took off and flew from
one wall to the other. After obtaining a little liquid
courage at one of the cafes in
This is the part in the movie the village, we came up with a
where the men, Picasso and I, solution for keeping the creepy
take action to protect our female crawlies at bay. More liquid
companion, Stuart. Of course, who courage, drivers excepted. Much
believes what they see in the more.
movies? In our case, Picasso
screamed like a little girl and New bravery in hand, we reclaimed
started stomping on the floor and the vans and hauled it to
kicking the walls. I, in turn, Carrillo as fast as possible.
did the ultimate crunch, which is Picasso danced the cockroach
to say I whipped my legs off the crunch throughout the remainder
ground with such speed as to make of the trip, which made for a
a drill sergeant weep with joy. I messy van and the need for new
then jumped off the bench just to flip flops. I hoped I was
make sure there weren't any of imagining things crawling on my
the little buggers in my shorts. legs. Stuart just kept laughing.
Stuart, on the other hand, just
laughed at us. Nature is beautiful, except when
it ain't!
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