So the bus ride from Monte Verde to Cabo Blanco was...interesting. We loaded all our bags on the roof, piled in the bus, and our driver starts tearing down the roads of Monte Verde. I don't think I've mentioned the road conditions or the taxi drivers here yet, so I'll take a quick bunny trail. (inside joke)
The roads around Monte Verde are odd. In Santa Elaina, they are mostly paved, and in about as good a condition as Alajuela. Just outside the city, however, they are all dirt. Even up to many of the tourist hot spots, they're all dirt. And rough. Think about what happens when you have all that water coming down onto dirt roads, collecting into potholes that never get filled. Very primitive. So the taxis all have to be 4 wheel drive. And diesel, because there's no gas station in Santa Elaina, which is on top of a mountain. The nearest gas station is at the bottom of the mountain. And yes, there's taxi service in the mountians, mostly to service the tourists. Anyway, they drive about as crazy as the one's in town, but they're in 4x4 mode so they can take these massive potholes at whatever speed they dang well please.
Apparently our bus driver must have been a former cab driver, because he literally raced down the mountain, flinging us all over the back seat. But he was really cool. He stopped and let us get out and take pictures of a troop of howler monkeys that were hanging out above the road. But the best part was his iPod. There is this song that somehow before the bus ride became our group's song. Well, it just happened to be the first song on our cool bus drivers iPod. We rocked all the way down the mountain, to the ferry, and then from the ferry to Cabo Blanco. At one point, he was letting Alex play other people's iPods on his stereo. Here's some photos of our dance party in the back of the bus.
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