Sorry for the lapse in blogging, but my wife and I decided to travel to Costa Rica for our 10-year anniversary. We always like to get outside the mainstream tourist areas so we found these cool bungalows on the Southeast side of the country near Puerto Viejo. They were roughly five hours of jungle, rainforests and mountains away from San Jose (the capital city with a major airport). My excuse for not blogging is that we had no television, computer, clock or telephones where we were.

Besides the fact that Delta delayed us in Atlanta for a night, then lost our luggage so we had to wear the same clothes for four days, shower with handsoap and try to wash our clothes in the sink every night, everything went well. We repelled through the jungle, spent plenty of time on the beach, got some great exercise riding bikes and hiking around and ate a lot of very good food.

After three nights in the remote bungalows, we spent the final night in the middle of San Jose at one of the more historic hotels in the city (Gran Hotel). Of course there were no flight delays coming back when it really didn't matter if we got delayed or not, but the trip was fun and relaxing.

What happened while I was away? I'm still putting the pieces together. I did get back in time to watch the Brewers win the wild card. I know the U.S. won the Ryder Cup (thanks to spending Sunday night in Atlanta). I'll fill in the missing pieces through the next few days.