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I've read many places about the sunsets on the pacific coast. Well, although its pretty hard to beat the mountain sunsets, the pacific coast sunsets are spectacular! Have a look at some of these pictures...

A small, but pretty waterfall that is on Dave's ranch.

The "road" on the way to the waterfall. The trees make for a living tunnel.

More of the road leading to the waterfall. This gives a better view of the tunnel.

Vulcan is one of the many volcanoes in Costa Rica, but is for now dormant.

The wife let me get a iPhone 3GS the other day and I am really starting to like it. It is quite cool how you can be out on a walk and think of something you want to look up and then be able to pull a phone out of your pocket and actually look it up right there. I spend most of my time when I am out looking at Wikipedia for some reason. Looking up places and people. I already had an iPod Touch so all my games and apps on there transfer over to my iPhone just fine. No repurchase necessary.
The wife is looking at a Palm Pre. We went to look at one today at a sprint store and they had one there to look at, and it wasn't working. So we walked out. I am sure if it was working she would have probably gotten one. But she would have gotten it from her work. It is only $49 dollars from her work. Thats it. Pretty tempting. But I love my new phone. She can have whatever she wants.

We traveled via Continental Airlines FIRST CLASS complements of the owner of Subscriber Services, Dave Keown. Guess that's my bonus for the year, well worth it! The flight went from DIA to Houston, TX, and from there to Liberia Costa Rica.
The Liberia airport is very small, so getting through Customs and Immigration was quick. Unlike Mexico, there wasn't a bunch of people trying to sell timeshares, which was a relief.
We were met by Dave's ranch hand who gave us a ride to the car rental agency, where we rented a Toyota Rav4. We were told that we would need a four wheel drive vehicle, which as it turns out was wise information! We also were told to get a GPS, which also turned out to be invaluable!
Afterwords, we followed Dave's ranch hand to our hotel for the night, the Hotel Guayacon in Guayabo. We were kind of concerned about this, since the room turned out to be a more or less a dorm room with a very thin foam mattress for the bed.
After we got settled, we visited a 'fiesta' a local company was putting on for its employees. A couple of the people spoke English, and welcomed us to have a beer and some bar-be-que with them. They were very friendly, however the karaoke was loud and most of the singing terrible!