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This past weekend I went to Jaco Beach with friends from work and it was quite an experience. The reason for the trip, well for most Costa Ricans there doesn’t need to be a reason to party or go to the beach, just an excuse, but this time it was due to the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games.

We planned the trip to the beach in one week, which is honestly a record for everyone around here since events that have been planned in a week or less tend to never happen, and we left on Friday night from my house after eating dinner there.

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Years ago trains used to travel on these train tracks that were built to transport the bananas from one side of the country to the other. Nowadays the trains once again travel through these forgotten and heavily damaged train tracks but instead of moving produce they move people between the cities of Costa Rica.

On August 10th it was the first day in years that the train began traveling, this caused for many to line up to take a ride in the new trains. Here is a photo of the train station in the city of Heredia

According to the local news, there were a lot more people in the afternoon than the morning trips. Due to the fact that the train service is just starting and it isn’t as common as in other countries, it currently only works for a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening and because of this most found that the evening was the best time for the trip causing for long lines and delays. At one point they stopped selling tickets for the train to determine if it would be possible for the service to handle that many people

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Ok, so these are the last batch and you can see all 100+ photos that were taken during this trip in the Photography section of this site and these are some of my favorite photos from the trip…enjoy :)

I'll start with the last photo taken before landing in Costa Rica…oh before I go on let me just say that despite every airline out there saying that the airport is in San Jose, CR's capital, I'm sorry to break this to you but that's not true in fact you are like 30mins from San Jose, the airport is actually in Alajuela…ok back to our regular programming ^_^

This photo was taken while our plane was going around a thunderstorm, now this isn't the greatest photo in the world but I actually am happy that it even came out like it did since I wasn't really expecting anything to come out.

This was a long exposure and there was turbulance so that's why you see the wing like that. The blue on the back…yup you guessed it…it's lightning and at certain points you could actually see the lightning volt. So lets recap on my trip to Taiwan the pilot had to push the engines to abort the landing since he was comming in too fast and had to circle the airport again, on my trip to New York the landing was rough because of the high speed winds that night and everyone in the plane applauded once we had landed and finally we have the flying near a thunderstorm…so those are the experiences on flights that I find quite interesting. My dad told me that on one of his flights the airplane engines powered down in mid flight, luckily the pilot managed to power them back on.

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