It is a beautiful sunny morning in San Jose. It will be interesting to see where today leads. I have already found that things change quickly when you are traveling and sometimes the best made plans can fall to pieces in a minute. That is part of the adventure I suppose.

Yesterday afternoon I met Jessica, another backpacker in the hostel. She is from Canada and is very used to the whole hostel/backpacking thing. She introduced me to down town San Jose. We walked through lots of street vendors and tons of people all shopping for the holidays. There was a huge indoor market that sold all kinds of wears: shoes, trinkets, fish, t-shirts, herbs, yummy snack food, mirrors, clocks, hammocks, watches, pots and pans. It was all there crammed into this maze of stalls and shoppers. When it started raining a bit we decided to get a drink at a little sopa on the second floor of this building. We sat by the open windows looking down at the shoppers as we drank our pear juice. Jessica left this morning to go back home. It was lovely to spend a little time with someone who is a practiced traveler. She gave me some great advice and really helped me transition into this trip.

Today I am going to try a head out of San Jose and into the country side but we shall see....