First day in CR

Well everyone I made it!! This is going to be great! The hostel I'm staying at is awesome and the weather is cool and moist. Here are some pics. Time to explore.


- city lights of SJ




The upstairs of hostel Pangea
Wahoo I'm here.

Micah

Location:San Jose CR

San Jose CR, Hostel Pangea

Things turned out great when I got here. I thought that my bag was lost because it didnt come up on the belt, freaked me out of course and I went to the counter and they had it in the back room, I guess it came earlier than I did. Perfect!! Then I went and decided that I was going to be smart and stay away from the taxi drivers (because that is what the books say to do) and I walked right through the hordes or them and was making my way to the bus. Pilar caught me and she is a taxi driver. She was awesome and real honest with me, she gave me a lot of things to do and told me places to stay away from. She also gave me a tour around the city, a fast one but one none the less.

Then enter Hostel Pangea. This place is the coolest hostel I have been too and it seems that there are many more in the country. it has a bar and a lounge a pool and it is very updated and mod. I love it. I will send pictures soon.

Peace

Micah

Thoughts on an airplane

Sitting here on the plane with the dry, germ infested air filling my nostrils watching "Into The Wild" I think about where this adventure is going to bring me, and am amazed that I'm actually doing this. I hope that it changes my life, gives me some insight as to a path that I should be on. Let the fates take me where they will. There has been this void in my life for some time now and I think this will help me figure out what it is and how to mend myself. I am so busy listening to other people everyday teach, talk, and inform that I have not listened to myself. I have become complacent in my life with a lack of motivation that only the laziest of people have. I need to get that motivation back. (For those of you wondering, this is NOT some way for me to fill a hole and I am NOT depressed. I am however getting back to me, re-igniting my soul, finding that self which had been lost, listening to that urning in my soul). I want to get back being able to see the beauty in the world and life. As I have told many this is my Eat, Pray, Love (probably minus the love). So as I sit here in a crowded vessel crossing America at 30,000 feet, I think about what tomorrow will bring and how wonderful it is going to be. I am scared but at the same time eager to jump in head first, no looking back until the day I return.

I just thought I would share for those of you that would like to know.

Micah

Location:Up in the air in route a Miami

getting ready for the trip of a life time

It is amazing how many things I need to do before departure. I thought that I had it all done and I was good to go, HA!

It has been a crazy two years and many people have helped me get through it. Thank you all. You know who you are. I have been blessed with a great family and wonderful friends.

Before I go I would just like to say Hasta Luego and I will return on Aug 1 to the states but I will not be home until Aug 2 due to my flight. I will send texts and call (from a 305 number) every once in a while and I will try to post pictures daily!! Check here daily if you would like.

For those of you interested in my trip, if you would like me to visit a specific place in Costa Rica let me know. I will try to get there and take a ton of pictures and come back and tell you all about it.

Peace!!

Micah

Just another day (information)

It is getting down to the wire here now and I am really biting at the bit to get this semester over with! Trying to keep myself floating with my grades right now. I guess I'm a little burnt out on school right now, hence the huge vacation. I have so many things yet left to do to get moved and transferred and to vacationate!!! Anyway, I just thought that I would check in and let those that follow me here know that I will be posting all of my trip stuff here and only here I won't be posting anything to Facebook. So check back here everyday when I leave to get great full length updates on my trip and life after Monterey!

Micah


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Location:Pacific St,Monterey,United States

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I guess that everyone has their day. Today was my day. I thought that it was going to start off all nice and pretty but it didn't. I am sick and this also causes me to not be at full mental strength. It isnt even that I have had that bad of a day but it turned out that way. Nothing in particular made it that way, it just is. I need to vent and this is my venting force I guess.

There are times in my life when I feel more alone and helpless then ever, even if I know that not to be true, we are our worst enemies in that sense. The day was beautiful and bright, warm, everything that would make a great day but somehow it fell apart. I really don't understand today that well.

I am lacking the motivation in life to do things and that is causing a problem all around. I need some motivation something to spark that fire in my soul again. I guess it is life when I lose my motivation because everyone does. Is it full depression? I think not, though all I want to do is sleep. That could be just me being sick too. Or it could be me wanting more in my life and that longing is finally getting to me at a level that I cannot handle. It is amazing how life can throw some crazy days at you hu?

I know that I am doing just fine but I am in need of some serenity in life, some completion, love, energy. I am sitting here writing this instead of studying for a test that I missed on Monday because I was sick yet I just cannot get myself to study. I think that is normal. I hope it is. I have started reading the essence of happiness by HHDL and it had some amazing things to think about. Is it really that hard to be happy in life that there have to be books on how to be happy? how sad is that? life sure tests us in crazy ways.

There are so many things that I want to do with life and it is so hard for me to wait because, those of you that know me I want it done now I want to be doing those things whatever they may be. I feel incomplete somehow, empty to a level and I really don't know why. I push these feelings onto other people and of course this causes problems.


Anyway I will stop this, please send me good ju ju, I need it right now.
Thanks for listening.


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Location:Monterey, CA

Weekend trip with Will

What a weekend! Will and I went to San Francisco Saturday via public transportation. It was great!! We got up at the butt crack of dawn (4am) and caught the bus at 520ish. It was fun! I think that public transportation is great and a lot cheaper than driving plus it frees up time for me to read, listen to music, sleep, all that fun stuff. We stayed at the hotel diva in union square in SF, great hotel


Between the walking in the city seeing parrots in a cherry tree, and views of the city from a now special "garden".


This trip will be memorable for a long time to come.

What a great trip.

One I will never forget!!

Location:San Francisco, CA