Dos Pinos...?

Why is the bus stopping to let more people off? When are we ever going to get back to San Jose?......Is that the sound of the bus not starting? Why is the bus not starting?

So, on the way back from Monteverde, the bus broke down. On a highway outside of San Jose. At 8:30pm, in the pitch black of night. Impossible to get a taxi. We don't have a cell phone. Next to a...Dos Pinos factory? Great.

Eventually we did get a cab which we managed to share with some other people. Then we realized that we were near the airport. Our first cab from the airport cost $23. We only have a little less than $20. Cabbies aren't really nice about this kinda thing. (Last week a cabbie tried to get us to believe that a $4 ride cost a ridiculous $14 because there was traffic. We, luckily, didn't have enough money and so only gave him $4, but he threatened to call the police. Not that he would have since they would know we were right, but I'm just saying, Tico cabbies get grumpy when you don't pay them enough. Bad News Bears.)

So now we don't have enough money for the cab ride home and we have no other way to get home, and no way to contact anyone. What did we do? We got dropped off at the airport and used the ATM there, and then got another cab home.

Crisis averted. And we survived. Yeah.