{"id":29,"date":"2011-01-02T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T13:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/2011\/01\/02\/do_you_know_the_way\/"},"modified":"2011-01-02T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T13:19:57","slug":"do_you_know_the_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/2011\/01\/02\/do_you_know_the_way\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know the way&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the final day of our tour, we headed from Arenal back to San Jose. We stopped along the way for a <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"es\"><i><span title=\"Click for alternate translations\" class=\"hps\">comida<\/span> <\/i><span title=\"Click for alternate translations\" class=\"hps\"><i>t\u00edpica<\/i> lunch <\/span>and a visit to an artisan co-op <\/span>for souvenirs.&nbsp; The items in this co-op ranged from some campy &amp; horrid trinkets (Costa Rica mug with enormous ta-tas comes to mind) to some really quite nice locally made furniture.&nbsp; We also stopped at a grocery store for coffee and plantain chips to take back.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to our hotel, we took a tour of some of the notable spots in San Jose.&nbsp; It seems like a pretty typical city to me.<\/p>\n<p>We then had our farewell dinner &#8212; complete with a rousing Twelve Days of Christmas adaptation (by Lis, of course) listing some of the trip&#8217;s highlights.&nbsp; Our guide was visibly touched, saying nobody had ever written him a song before.&nbsp; We said our goodbyes, and headed off to bed.&nbsp; Most of the party flew out early this morning, but we are among the few stragglers with later flights.&nbsp; We&#8217;re currently sitting in a quite pleasant little courtyard by the pool.&nbsp; This morning has been a good opportunity to catch up on posting (now that the netbook is cooperating again) and getting our minds wrapped around the thought that in a few days, we&#8217;ll be back in Boston winter and back at work.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of the foothills coming in to San Jose.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DCL_8452_sm.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/costa_rica\/CostaRica\/DCL_8452_sm.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"465\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the final day of our tour, we headed from Arenal back to San Jose. We stopped along the way for a comida t\u00edpica lunch and a visit to an artisan co-op for souvenirs.&nbsp; The items in this co-op ranged from some campy &amp; horrid trinkets (Costa Rica mug with enormous ta-tas comes to mind) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/2011\/01\/02\/do_you_know_the_way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you know the way&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}