On Oct 22 I left home on what is planned to be my longest trip away from home to date. Both my daugter and my son are expecting the birth of their first child, so my first grandchildren, in San Isidro de el General during this visit, and I’m excited to be here, be supportive, and to meet my grandchildren.
The trip started with an Uber to Seatac, and a flight to San Jose via Houston on Oct 22. This travel was uneventful, and despite travelling with lots of stuff for grandbabies I got to the Hampton Inn near the San Jose airport with all my luggage, my virtual SIM card working, and got a good sleep. The next morning I got a taxi to the Avis car rental plfor heading to Jean’s place in Tinamaste to await my first grandson’s birth.
Each morning except today (thunder and heavy rain this AM) I got out foor a morning walk and birding, and had fun. The area is near a small river, RIo Uvita, from the foothills into the Pacific, and there are a good number of undeveloped lots and small family farms, so birds of fields and open areas were easier to see and ID. The dirt road leading from the costal highway to the entrance to their dead end street runs beside a river, with several wet fields. There is a short road to look at the river, often with local women washing clothes in the early AM when I visited, and interestingly on rocks in the river good numbers of Black Vulture seemed to roost for the night.
Overall though nothing really unusual sighted, I did manage one new Costa Rica bird, an Eastern meadowlark.
Here are a few photos:

Today I moved to the guest cabin my daughter Jean and her husband Alan have constructed at their home in Tinamaste, and am pretty much settled in there. I get to christen the cabin, as I’ll be the first person to sleep there. It’s pretty cute and I’m feeling comfortable.
Tomorrow we go to San Isidro to visit the family farm, for Jean’s prenatal visit, for lunch and to get a few things to make the cabin complete. Maybe a little birding in the early AM and at the family farm.