San Jose, Costa Rica

Stephanie booking flight tickets at our Tranquilo hostel

This entry is dedicated on our style of traveling. It's crazy and fun is what it is. Every night so far we never have any hostels booked. We look at a Lonely Planet suggestions, show up at the hostel, ask for a room, and say yay or nay depending on the cleanliness of the place. Transportation on the other hand is a bit harder since we have so much land to cover and so little time. So we opted to cut out Panama the other day because of how long it's been taking us to get around Costa Rica. we booked a flight to Bogota, Colombia. We suddenly changed our minds, got a full refund, and decided for a cheaper but longer flight to Cartegena, Colombia. We laughed at ourselves.

Us making dinner in the hostel's kitchen

It's also been a great money saver by making dinner ourselves. This time we were semi inspired by a dish called Casados which seems to be a fairly simple dish of rice, beans, fried Plantains, and any other specialties. I'm making the rice, but Steph prepared most of the dishes. It seems like half of the hostels here in Costa Rica seem to serve breakfast. This place was universally known for their pancakes. Half the reason why I choose this hostel. They did not disappoint.

Sean and Stephs version of Casados

And voila; yellow rice, tomato & zucchini, black beans, and a side of papaya.