Today is Wednesday, October the fifth. We arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica last night. We left from Miami where we had stayed on the beach for a few days. We took a taxi from the airport to Tranquilo Backpackers Hostel. Today, we walked around the city for the first time. It was amazing seeing all of the open markets and shops around the city. Our main setback now is the language. Neither of us speak Spanish, but luckily most of the people here speak some English. We will be in San Jose until at least Sunday when we will go to Orosi for a week long Spanish class. From there we will make our way down the Pacific coast of Central America eventually arriving in South America. Looking at the sheer size of the places we plan on going to, we are questioning how far around we will be able to go in our one year period of time. Also, we are deciding on whether or not to ditch about 50-60% of our stuff. We met a guy from New Zealand who has been traveling for three years now. We broke down what we had in our packs and he told us all the stuff we wouldn't need. We were relieved to hear that we probably wouldn't be needing most of our stuff. We havn't actually sent anything home yet due to a bit of skepticism. We are bringing the laptop with us now. We decided that to save space and weight it would be easier and much more functional than the external dvd burner we previously had. That's all for now so I'll check back later.

Phil