“The latest bashing by Mother Nature left the country in a mess. Roads are blocked, some residents are homeless. Many more are in shelters. And transportation between the Central Valley and the rest of the country is hampered. A weather alert continues, and there is no sign rains will cease.”
~ A.M. Costa Rica
The good news is, we weren’t there to be caught in a landslide. The bad news is, the latest Tropical Storm to hit Costa Rica has done severe damage to all infrastructure and pretty much all major roads, including the Interamerican highway (Hwy 1) are closed, and it’s still raining. Our fearless leader, who left yesterday morning, found herself stranded in San Jose with no way to get North to Santa Cecilia and Pitilla. Last report was that she was going to catch a plane to Liberia and meet us there tomorrow.
The upshot is… no new ATV (yet), and potentially no way of getting from Liberia (where we are flying in) to Santa Cecilia and our field site in Guanacaste. I guess we’ll just have to get there and find out! T-1 day!