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How We Experienced Beautiful Costa Rica

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January 23-31, 2024 Day 1 - We flew overnight on JetBlue to San Jose, Costa Rica via Fort Lauderdale, FL. Took the night flight in order to get there early enough to drive to our first destination before dark (most country and mountain roads do not have lights). Flight arrived around 10 am, and we finally left the city after Noon. Drove through humble residential areas then up to beautiful  mountains and stopped at the La Paz Waterfall Gardens. Didn't tour the park but enjoyed lunch at the Gardens restaurant with a nice view, and then stopped at the La Paz Waterfall which is right by the road.  We drove on through beautiful country and arrived in La Fortuna around 4:30 pm. Checked in to the Volcano Lodge and Spa, about 10 minutes outside La Fortuna. The resort was in a beautiful tropical jungle setting in the shadows of the tall cone Arenal volcano - it was usually clouded over at the top while we were there. The resort was very beautiful, comfortable and nice with natural hot spr

Norway and Sweden Trip Blog

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Our Journey to Norway and Sweden, June 2018 After years of dreaming and planning, this bucket list trip finally became a reality for us. Ken had long wanted to return to Sweden where he had served his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. DeNeise and Ken both had also dreamed about seeing the fjords and Lofoten Islands of Norway for many years. Finally, time and money came together to allow us to take this dream trip. We started our Journey to Norway and Sweden by driving from our home in Rapid City to  spend a weekend with our family in Utah. Then, on Monday, June 4 th at 7 am we drove from Latissa’s house and met Mom and Jerry around 9 am at the SLC airport where they took our car to their home. Everything was going smooth, we got through security quickly, and had plenty of time to eat breakfast at McDonalds and relax before the flight, which left around 11 am. Our first flight on Delta took us to LAX, getting there 20 minutes early, where we had