Day 23: Bumpedy bump bump ...

It is quite possible that I have suffered from whiplash and a minor concussion from driving around yesterday.

Enid took, Sylvia, Cinsia and myself yesterday when she had a meeting in Umtapa. We left at 6:30 am, got home at 6:30 pm and spent about 9 hours of that time in the car. Granted not because Umtapa is 4.5 hours away, no because we stopped at 3 cities along the way and made a big circle, to pick up and drop off various people. Don´t ask.

So Costa Rica has potholes...so did Peru and the Dominican was just gravel, I think most people coming to a latin american contry should come expecting this. However, potholes take on a whole new meaning when you experience them in a 12 seater van with absolutely horrible suspension (probably because of the potholes). And where there are nto potholes, because most

To be fair most of Costa Rican´s major highways are paved with some potholes, but mostly dips and tight turns and speed bumps....which were fine when I experiences them in Enid´s SUV going to Volcano arenal.

Here there was a constant up and down motion of the car as it reverberated because we had to keep slowing down for tight turns and then speeding up again...there are three sets of tires so going over speed bumps at the bottom of a hill was interesting, because for each set of tires there were 3 bumps (like I said, no suspension). And I became increasingly glad for the fact that the van had a high ceiling and I have a shorter torso.

The situation became increasingly intersting towards the end of the day whenEnid was getting tired and a thick fog set in (the kind where you can se maybe 4 meters ahead of the car)....

Lesson learned: I am taking my tyelonal with me tomorrow.