Rick- Thanks for sharing the pictures of your beautiful wife and tractors. I wish you, your wife, and tractors many happy and healthy years together. Wifey and I have been together for +40 years; married 13 according to the wife. It takes lot of work and a sense of humor to stay together with someone for any length of time.
I think the place you and your bride-to-be went to is
Bienvenido | Hicaco. And if it's the same place as you remember and desribed,the food is awesome good eats; especially the ceviche. I love the stuff. We are going to Jaco today to check it out and make like touristas.. I will try to get a picture of the restaurant (or the one that I think is the restaurant you mentioned) and we'll see if jogs your memory.
I have not shaved since we got here. I am starting to look like I have been in the "bush" for a long time (BTDT more than once).
My night driving vision is starting to cause me trouble so I am where I/we want to be off the roads by 6:00PM (sundown). This effectively forces us to eat where we are staying.
The swim up bar is one of two at the Hotel Islitas. The one pictured is off the restaurant. The food is awesome there. I never had a more tasty dish of octopus. The second swim up bar is by the beach and the drinks are much stronger, but one really needs a shuttle or drive down to get there.
The beach scene with beachgoers is at Carrera. Most of the beaches here are unsafe for swimming because of undertow annd riptides, but make for some of the best surfing in the world according to some American surfers with whom I have talked.
The other beach scene is looking at the "road" we took to get to Santa Teresa. I bet we travelled ~ 10 miles on that beach "road". We were advised to follow "the tire tracks" in the sand. That's the area where we had 4 of our 5 stream crossings as there were no bridges. I wish that I had my "drone's" Mobius HD video cam as a dash cam for those crossings. One of them had wifey walking point until we ran out of "road" and had to recross back from where we had come from
ATV vehicles are street legal here. They are all over the place in the Nicoya region.
The beach here at Villas Caletas is cobblestone and requires a shuttle. Wifey's iPhone really did not do the sunset here well. I will try with the camera at sundown tonight at the amphitheater (or restaurant above the amphitheater).
Hotel Villa Caletas, Central Pacific, Costa Rica
I have not commented on the motorcycle pictures. I am not a motorcycle person. I can barely ride a bicycle. I do appreciate the work invested in modifying and upgrading them. They can be works of functional mechanical art. What I have seen here is good stuff. I know that it takes a lot of work and money to create the "perfect" bike.
Honestly by Friday it will be "time" to return home to the warming trend in the NE as some of you have posted. I've been following the weather up there from here in CR. I bet JaysterAcres got +1" of much needed rain.
