{"id":69,"date":"2006-12-06T14:18:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-12-23T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T18:52:05","slug":"from-paradise-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2006\/12\/06\/from-paradise-to-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"From Paradise to Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now in Quepos, after catching a water taxi from Montezuma to Jaco this morning and then finding a bus to bring us down the coast. We are planning to catch a bus this evening to take us down to Uvita, which get us close to our goal of being on the Osa Peninsula by Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/expats.mazzy.com\/g2\/v\/20061126_costa_rica\/20061202_montezuma\/montezuma_sunset_kath_flower.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/expats.mazzy.com\/g2\/d\/5034-2\/montezuma_sunset_kath_flower.jpg\" \/><\/a>Montezuma was, in one word, amazing. I&#8217;ve been few places closer to paradise. Clear running waterfalls that slip into a crashing sea over tan sand. Cool sea breezes and plenty of shade on the beach to defeat the sun, which we hadn&#8217;t seen in Costa Rica until we arrived in Montezuma.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t take any tours there, just chilled. Like New Zealand last year, I believe that our photos of the area won&#8217;t approach its true beauty. No wonder so many folks spend longer than expect in Montezuma.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/expats.mazzy.com\/g2\/v\/20061126_costa_rica\/20061202_montezuma\/\"><em><strong>Check out more photos of Montezuma here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now in Quepos, after catching a water taxi from Montezuma to Jaco this morning and then finding a bus to bring us down the coast. We are planning to catch a bus this evening to take us down to Uvita, which get us close to our goal of being on the Osa Peninsula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}