Oct 30, 4:10pm- Depart YYZ to SJO, via Avianca

Was supposed to be a 5 hour flight to El Salvador for our layover, but we got there in 4 hours. Short layover of one hour and a bit,then a 59 minute flight to San Jose. We both watched Molly’s Game from Toronto and had some beef pasta for dinner.

Costa Rica is currently 2 hours behind, but that will change this weekend with the clocks going back at home. So we will only be an hour behind soon.

Flights were fine, we didn’t lose our bags or have any holdups. I checked in online the day before to select our seats so we only had to wait maybe a half hour to check our bags.  I read that the San Jose airport can be slow, average time to get out of there after landing was 1.5-2 hours. We landed around 9:40pm and were out in just under an hour, including a stop at the kiosk to get a local sim card.  We waited about another 20 minutes for the hotel shuttle to the Marriott, which is only across the street from the Airport.

We grabbed some lobby beers and headed to the room, we made it! Now to get some sleep so we can get up and find our way to downtown San Jose to the bus that will take us to our first stop of Puerto Viejo!

*no airport photos, sorry.

*side note, we are both terrible for taking pictures (we don’t do it), so will try hard to act more like a tourist on this trip