Puerto Limon, Costa Rica

Four things that I didn't know about Costa Rica:

- it only takes 4 hours to drive from the Atlantic side of the country to the Pacific side. Because of this, many importers and exporters ship their goods overland instead of going thru the Panama canal (which is very expensive)

- because there is so much rain here, people aren't buried in the ground. Instead they are interred a

bove the ground (just like the cemeteries in New Orleans)

- only Catholic priests and lawyers can do marriages. Other religions aren't allowed to perform mar

riages here

- but prostitution is legal here

While I was here, I hopped on a bus that took us to the center of the country to see the rainforest. There, I boarded a gondola that spent an hour traveling through the top of the rainforest (like a ski lift).

It was very interesting and I would recommend this excursion to anyone who wants to get up close and personal to bullet ants (which are nearly 2 inches long), snakes (we ran into a poisonous fer-de-lance), sloths, toucans and exotic butterflies.