2014 Nicaragua/Costa Rica

This blog chronicles the adventures of several Mountain View students and their travels to Nicaragua and Costa Rica in 2014. Click the "subscribe to this newsfeed: email" link at the bottom of the screen to get an email notification when new posts are made.

NOTE: Posts go from newest to oldest, so the top post is the last day of the trip while the bottom post is the first.

What Do You Say, San Jose?

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Sunday, March 23, 2014 at 2:22 AM (MST)

Today was our big San Jose day...

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Finally... Some Beach Photos!

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 4:53 AM (MST)

The network was too congested last night to upload photos from day 7, so I got up before the students got on the WiFi and uploaded them... Here they are!

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Finally.. Some Beach Time!

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Friday, March 21, 2014 at 9:12 PM (MST)

We've seen photos, we've driven by them, and today it was finally time to go to the beach.

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Monteverde Madness

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 8:54 PM (MST)

Cloud forest, canopy tours and travel to the coast.

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Adventures in Arenal Region

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 7:44 PM (MST)

Kayaking, waterfall, school visit, long drive and Monteverde / Santa Elena.

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We Are in Costa Rica (part 2)!

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 7:13 PM (MST)

Better WiFi now, so here's the rest of the story (and photos) from last night...

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We Are in Costa Rica Now!

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 9:24 PM (MST)

I hope you don't mind, but this will be a very brief post tonight. Our wifi signal is rather weak and there is not too much to report unless I ramble. :-) We had an early departure from Managua today to make it down to the border with good time. It took us about an hour and a half to go through customs and immigration at the border for our large group and from what I have read on the internet...

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Volcano, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos and more

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Monday, March 17, 2014 at 9:36 PM (MST)

It's hard to believe this was only our second full day! What a great day it was!

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Granada is Great!

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 9:08 PM (MST)

It's so hard for us to believe that this is only our first full day in Nicaragua.

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We Are in Granada!

Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Saturday, March 15, 2014 at 10:50 PM (MST)

Big travel day and we have arrived!

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Posted by Ryan M. Norton on Friday, March 14, 2014 at 11:43 AM (MST)

It's almost time to travel!! We may want to send texts to parents and/or travelers. We will be using remind101.com to send messages (for example, "Our flight's late" or "We are in Florida, boarding for Phoenix" or "Just landed in Phoenix"). Subscribe now if you would like to receive them.

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2014 Nicaragua/Costa Rica