Hey AutoComers,
here is a little summary of my journey to California and Costa Rica. Hope you enjoy it and don’t get too envious! :-P
Three days after my last day @AutoCom I started my big trip, which I was looking forward to for such a long time. My first destination was Los Angeles, where I spent four nights in a very nice hostel. I met so many people from all over the world there and we took tours arranged by the hostel (for example to the Getty Museum). Besides that I saw walls, fences and (sometimes) houses of celebrities during a so-called “LA city tour.” But luckily, the bus also stopped at the famous spots, such as the Hollywood sign, the Walk of Fame and Universal Studios. 
By the end of the week I got a rental car and headed south towards the Mexican border with stopovers at beautiful beaches like Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Huntington Beach. After taking tons of pictures and videos I finally reached my destination, San Diego. I spent a whole week there doing activities like visiting the world famous zoo, walking on white sanded beaches and catching grunions at night. I even took a tour with an amphibious car called “The Seal!”
Unfortunately my stay in SD was influenced by a lot of worries concerning the swine flu. As you know, I actually wanted to fly to Cancun to spend two weeks in Mexico/Yucatan. Two days before my flight I decided together with my friend Sebastian to change that plan. With absolutely no clue about Costa Rica I met him in the capital San José to start our vacation in Central America.
From this day on we called our travel guide “Lonely Planet” our “Bible,” because it told us where to go, where to sleep, where to eat and what to do! We traveled by bus and boat through the country and could therefore see a lot of beautiful landscapes. 
We did a lot of fun things in the different places. For instance, we canopied in La Fortuna, hiked the cloud forests in Monte Verde and rode horses on the beaches of Montezuma. It was nice!! I especially fell in love with Montezuma because we could lay in hammocks at the Pacific ocean, snorkel near the small island Tortuga and just relax with some refreshing fruit shakes in our hands and music in our ears.
After this chill-out part of our trip we headed back to San José (with a night in between in not-so great Jacó) and finished our vacation on the roof-deck of our fancy hostel with a beautiful view over the lighted city. Doreen
Comments
Miriam