{"id":242,"date":"2010-08-01T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/01\/even-more-osa\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T07:09:00","slug":"even-more-osa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/01\/even-more-osa\/","title":{"rendered":"Even more osa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_537827770\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t    Another fantastic, restful day.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun to see all four of<br \/>us decompress and fall into<\/p>\n<p>A slower pace. We\u2019ve spent hours today just hanging out on<br \/>the porch talking.. all four of us.. it feels so good.<\/p>\n<p>Last night was out big night out.. in fact.. we consciously have<br \/>decided not to try and do to much sightseeing or socializing.. Last night was<br \/>the farmers market Buena Esparanza.. about 15 minutes up the road&#8230;.\u00a0 It was<br \/>pouring when we set out.. but it was fun to walk in the rain . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had to cross a foot bridge complete with troll <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110004.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the whole peninsula seemed to be at the market.. it took<br \/>place in a restraint,\/ bar with a dj !.. I think there were about 30 folks<br \/>there\u2026\u00a0 (and that <i>is <\/i>\u00a0most of the peninsula) <\/p>\n<p>This woman was selling homemade ice cr\u00e8me.. Ben\/Jerry.. I you\u2019re<br \/>reading this.. she was using your recipe book. She told me she got a laugh out<br \/>of your comment about saving spare egg whites so you can throw them away<br \/>later..\u00a0 There ladies were selling homemade Kailua and chocolate.. yum<br \/>!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110005.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110006.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110008.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110010.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110012.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We had a lovely dinner (only our second dine out dinner of<br \/>the trip).. <\/p>\n<p>Then walked back through the jingle in the dark.. pretty<br \/>cool and spooky.. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110021.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110022.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This morning we were wakened by the \u00a0sound of Two-cans (ok..<br \/>it\u2019s funnier when you heard it aloud) <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110024.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We spent a good part of the day sea kayaking .. I couldn\u2019t<br \/>bring my camera<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110027.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was \u00a0awesome !!! \u00a0\u00a0It was like surfing. We could ride the<br \/>waves all the way across the beach..\u00a0 I had a samstone in my bow and let the<br \/>waves take it when they wanted it.. they took the samstone and tumped me over but<br \/>good !. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We all came in when it started ot rain around\u00a0 noon.. we had<br \/>another huge meal.. <\/p>\n<p>Pizza\u2026 guacamole, hummus, cucumbers. Garlic bread, brownies..<br \/>then a nap !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110028.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110029.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rain let up around 3 so Diane and I took a walk down the<br \/>beach.. There are amazing rock formations.. and the jungle looks right out of Jurassic<br \/>park !<\/p>\n<p>We hiked to this place where the Carbonera river hits the<br \/>sea.. there\u2019s a small fresh water pool you can swim in as you look at the<br \/>waves.. I think we say 4 other people on our entire walk.. This is really<br \/>paradise. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110032.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110037.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110038.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110042.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110043.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110045.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>All day we\u2019ve been watching the monkeys and macaws.. We had<br \/>one Macaw that sat right off our porch \u00a0and watched us during the afternoon\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>And.. our friend Harold the Hawk kept a constant vigil on<br \/>our compost pile.. He\u2019s a beautiful and constant presence in our lives here. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110005.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110006.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110008.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110010.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110012.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110b002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110b004.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110b012.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3110\/jul3110b021.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>OK.. this is our last day in Osa.. It\u2019s been a wonderful<br \/>stay.. tomorrow we head to Piedras Blancas and the treehouses.. \u00a0\u00a0. I\u2019m going<br \/>to see if I can find some wireless to stral so I can post these entires.. It\u2019s weird<br \/>being this offline..<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow.. <\/p>\n<p>Nite all.. nite Sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another fantastic, restful day.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun to see all four ofus decompress and fall into A slower pace. We\u2019ve spent hours today just hanging out onthe porch talking.. all four of us.. it feels so good. Last night was out big night out.. in fact.. we consciously havedecided not to try and do to much &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/01\/even-more-osa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even more osa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}