#24: I almost died in Costa Rica. Here’s what NOT to do when work and travelling this country.
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Are you dreaming of working remotely while traveling and soaking up the island life in Costa Rica?
In this episode, I share my experiences and lessons learned as a solo female traveler and digital nomad in Costa Rica.
In this episode, I share 5 things that surprised me, 5 things I would do differently next time, and 5 personal highlights and experiences I recommend. I talk about the safety of traveling as a solo female, transportation options and road conditions, the local culture and lifestyle, and tips for traveling on a budget.
My goal for my trip to Costa Rica was to expand my comfort zone, connect with nature, and detach from being online all the time. I share my experiences traveling half backpacker style and half digital nomad style, and the challenges and surprises I encountered along the way.
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Episode Transcript
Emily: Hello, my beautiful friend and welcome back to another episode. It's been a long while actually. I've taken a little break. The last few months were pretty crazy. I've been traveling so much, and just in between not having routine You know, struggling to find places with really good wifi as well.
It's always a bit of a challenge and now I finally have some time to myself to catch up on a lot of things. I'm currently tuning in from wintery snowy Wisconsin at our beautiful lakeside house. It's like complete. Whites outside. And when we first arrived here on the first night, we hopped out of the car and I was like, knee deep in snow.
So that is how, what a crazy contrast it is to just four weeks ago being Costa Rican and like s sweltering hot and being outside all the time to now being inside with a cup of tea fireplace going and just being super cozy. So not to have click baited you with the title, but I did very, almost, nearly die on multiple occasions actually.
90% were motorcycle related. 10% was just typical clumsy, me related. But I will be sharing more in the episode. What happened? And I'm also going to be recording a separate episode on fear and the lessons that Motorcycling taught me. So how did I end up in Costa Rica is probably the first question most people ask me, and I do just wanna backtrack a little bit and kinda share a little bit of my goal or intention for this trip in Costa Rica.
I had never been to. South or Central America before, and my birthday is January the 12th. So kind of just around that mark. I was like, ah, since I'm already in, you know, the America side, I was visiting my brother in Canada and then my mom and my stepdad in Florida. I was, Already so close, like just a few hour plane ride away.
And I thought, Hey, why not try? Why not travel somewhere new? You know, start the year expanding my comfort zone. Be in nature again and just detach a little bit from being online all the time. I really felt this need to create space for new ideas and to really connect with nature and just myself again.
So that was my intention behind that. Originally my brother was going to come with me, but due to some work commitments, he, he couldn't. So I ended up just solo traveling. For, I think it was close to three weeks in Costa Rica. So I will go and touch on a little bit about like what my experience was like traveling as a solo female in Costa Rica.
But first I wanted to touch on like the style of traveling as well. So if you know me personally, you know that I'm, I love my backpacker style . I love being in hostels and just traveling really minimalistically and yeah, just, I'm not a lavish traveler. So it was very much like half backpacker style, half digital nomad style because I needed to work obviously, and I had like client work commitments and whatnot.
But it was really nice to also just have a lot of time offline. I really needed that and I just loved yeah, traveling really minimalistically trading luxury and comfort for like wild adventures that just like really pushing my boundaries. I just, it'd been a while since I felt that like fire light up again in my soul.
I just, yeah, especially motorcycling across like. The country, upper mountain, down by the beach. Like I just felt so alive and so like, aware of everything that was just really, really special to feel so wonderfully alive again. And you know, you don't really notice that until, at least for me you can get so caught up and stuck in.
routine or when you start making money, it's also easy to start affording comfort. You know, why would you choose discomfort when you can give yourself comfort and ease? And some of my other recent trips that I've done in Italy say when I could finally start affording, you know, like nice Airbnbs in one, I was like, yeah, cool.
Like, why wouldn't I? But actually I forgot how fun it is and how much you grow as a result of choosing discomfort. So as I was contemplating how I wanted to structure this episode, I thought instead of sharing like, you know, giving you a recount of what I did and where I went and everything like that I thought it would be way more fun to share five things that surprised me and thus learned five things that I would do differently next time I go back. And five personal highlights slash experiences that I can just highly recommend. you ever go to visit Costa r. So five things that surprised me.
One, I felt super safe traveling as a solo female except for in San Jose, which is the airport, which where I landed and like pretty sure that's the capital. That was, I mean, the Uber rides and whatnot, everybody was telling me like, get out of San Jose as fast as you can. Walking around. I personally felt like it was quite dodgy.
I didn't spend much time there. I think I spent like one evening and half a day and then I was like out . So I can't speak much for San Jose itself, but for the rest of the country where I was so kind of along the coast of, so Upton Monteverde down. across that little like islet peninsula to Santa Teresa, that whole area.
I just thought I felt super safe and people were so nice. I also got a lot of curious looks as as a so female traveler who was traveling by a motorcycle, , a lot of men. Couldn't quite believe that I was traveling the country on a motorcycle. So that was interesting. But yeah, I mean a couple times I had a few mishaps of my motorcycle and the locals were so kind and just came to help me.
I never once felt taken advantage of perhaps a help that I also spoke Spanish. But yeah. And then also, , you know, sharing some experiences with my female traveling friends slash expats. They all had really positive they all had really positive. Experiences with the locals and just being in this country.
And Costa Rica is regarded as one of the safest, I think, countries in Central America as well. So yeah, that is a, I can highly recommend it as a place to travel by yourself as a number two transport. Pretty expensive and limited actually. Definitely. If you want the freedom to go to off the beaten track places or just to go on your own time and you are traveling with like a someone else or a group, then it's definitely a lot more cost efficient to have your, to rent a car to rent a motorcycle.
I'm not sure if that's super cost efficient because I checked up the prices beforehand there about like. 40 to 80 US dollars per day to rent a motorcycle. So, you are actually better off to buy a secondhand motorcycle and then sell it at the end or to come to an agreement with someone for like a long-term rental on a motorcycle because.
because, yeah, it just . I don't know why motorcycles are so expensive to rent. So I went down the route of just buying a motorcycle with the intention of selling it back at the end. Hitchhiking is easy, but I wouldn't recommend doing it in a city like San Jose. I hitchhiked a couple of times, or a few times actually, because I.
Promised myself that I wouldn't ride the motorcycle in the dark because a lot of the roads were. Dirt roads, gravel roads and whatnot. I didn't feel super safe. So occasionally when it was too late or too dark, I would then take an Uber or I would hitchhike and got picked up by some cool people.
Lots of locals. They were all locals actually that picked me up and had a really good experience. So if that's something. You know, floats your boat. Definitely do it. If you, if you don't have your own mode of transport. I was talking to a few travelers and it seemed like the best option or the cheapest option is to go by bus.
And the bus is the option that takes the longest, like sometimes like 4, 6, 10 hours. Or the next best option is a shuttle, which usually goes a lot faster. It's more direct as well. So shaves off an hour or two here and there, depending on, but shuttles are a lot more pricier for sure a lot more tourist geared.
And another option that's quite popular is. Taxis. So there are a lot of like long distance taxis that kind of go to the airport. You know, pick you up and then kind of drive, say half an hour to like an hour and a half to, you know, your final destination. And they're quite funny taxis because , the roads here are, the roads there are so crazy.
They're not your typical taxis. They're almost kind of like four wheel drive trucks, which will make a lot more sense when you are actually there and you see the roads for yourself. So yeah, that is, I think my, my best. Recommendation. If you have the budget for it, definitely get your own mode of transport.
You'll have so much more freedom and you'll get to see so many more places and experience so much more as well. The third thing that really surprised me, and you've kind of heard me mention it already, but like the road conditions are horrendous. Like I, you can't even imagine there are just. Potholes everywhere.
You know, 50% is like dirt, roads, gravel. You've got crazy drivers creating motorcyclists just zooming around. You'll occasionally get the odd river crossing, like Google Maps might just take you down a shortcut and halfway down there's is like super muddy river crossing and you're. No fucking way, you know,
And it actually cost me a lot of time. I, there was, yeah. Anyway, at one point I had to turn back and it cost me about an hour just to go all the way back around to the main road. I also had a couple of falls due to like, Pop holes and muddy roads and whatnot, which were not fun. Going up to the mount, for example, if you're gonna go up to Monteverde in like either a car or a motorcycle it's very.
rough. I would say like a lot of it is paved and then you'll get like really long sections where there's just like cracks in the road. And , it's, it's so, it's so stressful. Definitely not for beginner riders, which is very hypocritical of me. I had no idea that the roads were that bad. I thought they would only be bad and like, You know, super remote areas and I thought as long as I stayed on the main road and kind of like, you know, where tourist bus buses go and whatnot, that I would be fine.
No, it's the whole country. It's just like all the roads , you can expect that. And so I, that's something I kind of wish I knew in advance and perhaps I would've taken more precaution or I perhaps wouldn't. Bought a motorcycle, , but we survived, so all as well. The fourth thing that really surprised me, I'd heard of the expression like before, which means like, You know, pure life, you could say would directly translated.
But what surprised me was that people actually greet each other that way and say goodbye with like Porto Vida. And sometimes they're like fist pump or like, shake your hand or something, or like hug each other and like say Porto Vida. So I just really loved that. I thought that's such a beautiful way to greet and, you know, part ways with someone.
The, I love, I really love the locals. They're this, along with this kind of Puerto motto of theirs, they really like live. And breathe , this Puerto Rita lifestyle, which was such a welcome contrast to, you know, having been in, let's say faster moving parts of the world and like city life and, you know, just kind of that hustle, hustle culture.
And it was really nice to. Be around this, this beautiful energy. And I also really loved speaking Spanish again. So the Costa Ricans, it, depending on where you are, are some people I really struggle to understand and they would speak really, really quickly and very kind of slang like. But for most people, I actually understood them quite well.
I also met a lot of people who are expert and they've lived there for years. As well as travelers just, you know, passing by and I'd asked them like, was, is it a problem for you not to speak Spanish or not really to understand Spanish? And they all said no, like it's not a problem for them at all.
So that. A really good thing. I think it also depends where you are. For example, in the area of like santerre, it's not a problem because it is so expat heavy. Most people are, I would say, I mean majority being Argentinians, and then secondly being I think Israeli and then the rest being tourists. So, you don't have a lot of locals there.
But in the surrounding areas where it's like. Very, like, just very remote. Then you probably start to get people who don't speak English. And I have, like, there were a lot of people who I encountered a lot of locals who didn't speak English. , not that it mattered for me, I spoke to them in Spanish anyway.
But even taxi drivers, for example, a couple of them who, you know, picked me up while I was hitchhiking, I'd asked them like, oh, do you speak English then? And they actually said, no. I, I don't, but we kind of send me what communicate with hand gestures and whatnot. So, you know, it's definitely helpful to.
I think learn and speak and just out of respect being in someone else's country to be able to have a few phrases here and there. I think they really appreciate it. And yeah, I mean, if you ever get into a sticky situation, it just helps to have a few phrases under your belts. But overall, if you don't speak Spanish and you don't know a word, Not going to be a problem if you are staying in areas that are a bit more, yeah, let's say touristy or expat populated.
And the last thing, the fifth thing that. Really surprised me was the amount of expats that lived here in the area of Sansa. And consequently how expensive that particular area was. There are lots of wealthy people, lots of, lots of really beautiful people. Like, whoa, like . I've never seen so many beautiful people in one place.
everyone's like super fit, super health conscious. You also got a good mix of say, digital nomads or people who live there and work there, say from co-working spaces as well as travelers who are sort of passing by short term, but also, you know, getting in there. Some work done in co-working spaces.
Also just travelers in general who like to spend, you know, more time and slow travel in one place rather than hopping around everywhere. So yeah, a really good mix of people here. So now following on from the fact that Costa Rica was way more expensive than I'd budgeted for, and. Than I'd expected.
Next time I go back, here are the five things that I would change or do differently or just better prepare myself for. And I think for anyone who hasn't been to Costa Rica yet you're going to find this super, super helpful. So, number one, I kind of mentioned this already, but if you're going to. Buy or, you know, have a motorcycle or like a quad bike.
I would actually buy a motorcycle, a illegal, I should stress a legal motorcycle with registration and papers or long-term rent and like have a good, just negotiate with a local or something like that. Don't negotiate with People who are actually in the business of renting because you'll get a shitty deal.
But yeah, try to find locals. You can find 'em on like Facebook marketplace or a kind of message if you know people there. Try to, you know, find someone who knows someone who knows someone and get yourself a vehicle that is legal, registered and has papers so that you don't get in trouble with the traffic police.
or another good option is like a quad bike for short distances. So in places like Santa Terea if you don't ride a motorcycle, for example, you can operate and ride a quad bike. It's a lot easier and better for short distances. However, if you're going to like ride for three hours or four hours across the country, then obviously motorcycles is a lot better.
They go faster and they're more fuel efficient as well. One thing I did want to mention about the traffic police, and I find it really funny the system that they have here. So you'll often see police in like a white vehicle or something out on the road, but they're not necessarily traffic police.
They've got different polices who can stop you for different things. And they have a particular like traffic police, which is I think marked by like a blue. stripe or a blue uniform or something like that. They only come around sort of once in a blue moon. But when they do like. , everyone's like off the road or suddenly everybody's wearing helmets.
And everyone's like driving very carefully as well. So yeah, I got really lucky. I never encountered traffic police while I was riding my motorcycle. If I did, I really don't wanna know where I would've ended up or what would've happened, but people tell me. that if you are caught riding, so it's illegal, you would be fined if you got caught riding without a helmet.
And if you got caught riding a vehicle that wa wasn't registered or didn't have papers or something and you couldn't. prove it, or something like that. For example, if you got a motorbike from a dodgy person and they couldn't prove that it was you or that it was registered, and you are like, oh, but like I'm renting it or I bought it that, and it's not good enough, cuz you don't have proof, then they can actually take their bike off and potentially detain you.
And like find you heavily if not. Take you to the police station or something. So that's not super fun and I'm really glad that I didn't encounter any traffic polices. But just for you to know if you are thinking about yeah, you know, having your own vehicle while you are there. The traffic police are the people that you want to watch out.
Number two. The second thing that I would change next time, well, yeah, next time. I think once you've been in a place once, the first time, you always wanna like see a lot of things. But for the second time, I kind of know where I would like to stay. And it would be in the area of like San Teresa and I'd stay there for like four to six weeks.
The reason being that you can get. A better deal on accommodation if you stay in a place for like one month or longer. So like, kind of long-term ish accommodation. You also get into a routine for working. The co-working space also does better deals for like, you know, on a monthly basis as well.
So for me personally, in the future, rather stay in a place and really get to like, explore the place, connect with people make friends and not just kind of spend one week here and then leave one week here and then leave. You know, it just that fleeting kind of fast paced travel isn't quite my cup of tea anymore.
And also especially with having to work and needing wifi yeah, it's like. , it just would make most sense. So for anyone who is gonna go to Costa Rica for work and travel, highly recommend just like choosing a place, a spot area and just renting a place like four to six weeks. And I think, yeah.
You'll, yeah. You just really get to discover and go so much deeper with the place. And I'm super, yeah, I'm super glad. I spent two weeks actually in that area of like Santa Terea, Montezuma. So yeah, so kind of leading on from that, the third point that I would make then is securing a place with great wifi for work from the get-go.
And I kind of wasted a lot of time and stress Choosing, trying to like filter first, filtering out all the accommodation that didn't have wifi, and then reading the reviews and making sure that I selected places that said that they had decent or pretty decent ish wifi. And they'd be like, okay, cool.
But then what would happen is you'd get there and just randomly throughout the day you can't rely you, you really can't rely on wifi. It'll just randomly cut out for like, I don't know, half an hour, an hour, it'll come back later and then it'll just disconnect again. And just stop randomly working.
And it was like my biggest frustration. So in the end I was, ugh, this is Alina. Co-working space was such a godsend. So there's like two co-working spaces in San and Zele is like, I think, They're like you can find them all around the world. And it's kind of like a boutique hostile slash co-working space.
And top, top wifi super reliable. And I think for a week it was about 50 something US dollars. And if you were to be there for a whole month, it's about $150. So, Pretty standard European prices, I would say. I would be paying about the same if I was in Portugal at a co-working space. So that is what you can expect for that.
On the other hand, with my phone, so yeah, that's another thing as well. I got myself an EIM card, so it's, it's a way. Getting or having data on your phone without actually having to go to the store and buy a physical sim card and then like insert it into your phone because I need my personal sim card, my European one for a lot of like verification codes and whatnot, and I just didn't wanna risk like losing it for like a Costa Rican and sim card Butch.
I'm gonna use for like, what, two, three weeks. So I got an EIM card from. , I think it was like holi fly or something like that. I'll, I'll link it down below if you're interested. It was pricey. It was like 48 or something. Four 15 gigabytes, I think over 15 days. They have different plans as well. But for me, the ease of use and I, it was pretty reliable as well across the country.
Pretty good. Can definitely recommend. However, if you're on a budget, then I would recommend going to the store and getting one of the physical sim cards because just plan wise, way more affordable that way than the EIM card route, but totally up. the fourth thing that I would definitely change next time.
I think I, I'm a bit of a lazy person when it comes to cooking. When it comes to cooking just for myself. I don't enjoy cooking for myself. And because I was solo traveling, I just ended up eating out. A lot and that proved to be very expensive per meal. You can expect to like just local, local place, nothing lavish, about 10 to 15 US dollars.
For lunch and for dinner as well. So next time I'd definitely find, make sure I found like a long-term rental place that had a nice kitchen. And just go and buy like organic good produce and hopefully not be traveling by myself next time actually. And have someone else that we. Cook together and share good food together.
So yeah, that's, that's something I would change next time if I'm not solo traveling. The fifth and last thing, which I never quite figured out. Myself, just, I, not that I didn't figure it out, I just don't love having a lot of cash on hand. I'm so used to using my phone to pay away for everything. And I even rarely take out my actual physical cards, right?
So it's like I just need my phone. I don't need anything else. And carrying cash is extra weight. Extra confusion. I'm not gonna like take it away with me, however. In Costa Rica, something that I notice more and more of is that you oftentimes it's cheaper if you pay with cash, because I think the machines take like a hefty amount.
Of like surcharge or something from them. And so if you pay by cash, you probably pay like quite a good percentage less. They also have their own currency there. So that short form hand is like crc. Most people also accept U S D as well, so if you're like at a restaurant and they'll give you the price in like local currency.
Or U S D often as well. So that is quite interchangeable and they often prefer U S D, which is quite interesting as well. Something else I noticed is there are many places, especially really local places and street markets or people who like create those Bracelets and beautiful necklaces and whatnot, they don't accept card, so only cash.
And so I would recommend always having a belt 50 to 70 US dollars worth like converted in local currency. I think that way you just stay safe. If you ever end up having dinner at a place and then you can't realize you can't pay for it. Like me, I had to like run down, like walk five, 10 minutes down to the nearest a t m to take out cash just to come all the way back.
So yeah, that happened to me I think a couple times and it's just not super fun. So yeah, always take out cash. And now onto the fun part, which is my five personal highlights and experiences that I can. recommend number one. This was super memorable for so many reasons. It was my birthday and I wanted to do something special different that took me out of my comfort zone.
And so I booked myself in for a sunset horse riding tour. And we started at three and ended at six. It was about three hours and. . So just to get some context, I've never ridden a horse by myself. I've always had somebody leading me. Or yeah, just kind of like leading the, the leash as well. And I'd just be like trotting behind or something.
So I've never actually had the guts to do something by myself and to ride a horse by myself, let alone like Gallup by myself and get the horse to Gallup as well. I thought that would take years if, you know, at least months of, of training. So imagine my surprise when within like. Half an hour I.
On my own. Like I, I mean, within the first five minutes my guide was like, yeah, cool. You got this. Like, let's go. And so the next hour and a half or the next three hours, basically we were going down Beautiful. Beautiful beaches like hardly anyone. Once you left, you know, the main hub of Santa Teresa, you, there's like hardly anyone on those beaches, mostly locals.
You got to see really beautiful houses mixed in with like really humble local houses and just the most pristine beaches with these beautiful palm trees, this overhanging and it was magic and. You know, at certain points we'd see I think if they were hella monkeys or spider monkeys or both, I can't remember, just like casually, you know, hanging off of trees and, and playing around.
It was so, so magical. And we'd also see other horse other people on the horses as well, like on their tours and whatnot. Lots of secret beaches. And we got to the very end, the last like tip, which is a national park. And we saw beautiful . We saw really cute, like hermit crabs. There were like thousands of hermit crabs.
I'd never seen so many, and they were just all crawling around the beach and it was so special just being in nature that was so abundant and so alive. You know, most beaches. Yeah, just sand and water. Here it was like, you've got monkeys, you've got Hebert crabs, you've got like, you know, birds, and you've got just so many things happening.
It just felt so alive and yeah. So, and then on the way back we stopped for a beautiful hilltop place for, for sunset and yeah, rode all the way back just in time as the sun was setting and. It was just one of those moments in life where I felt so grateful, really. And being able to also gallop for the first time ever in my life.
It, it was just incredible that freeing feeling, that wildness. And I didn't think I was capable of galloping. I was really scared. She taught me how to trot and I was. I think I've got this, but my butt really hurts. And she was like, no, you got this, you got this. And taught me a few more tips and tricks and and then I was like, can you teach me how to gallop?
And she said, sure. And within like, I think three minutes or something, I was, I was on my own galloping and I asked her if she could take a, a video for me just for, for memories. And she did. And it. Crazy. It, you literally feel like you are flying. And it's like the most exhilarating feeling. I, I can't even, it's.
It's indescribable and I totally understand all my horse friends and I already like, cannot wait to get back on a horse and go back out there and gall on features. Anyway, the people I did this tour with Ollie's Adventures check them out. Fantastic people. I also, the, the second fantastic thing that I.
Did, which was kind of unscheduled but with Audi's Adventures as well as their quad bikes. So they rent out quad bikes ATVs, I think I call them there. So it's that either ATVs or Quad Bikes. Super cool. Everybody has one. You can totally understand why when you see the roads. And Adrian, the, the owner, so he kind of took me out on a awesome.
awesome tour with the quad bike, just like through the beaches and the jungles and like showing me showing me like the local lifestyle there. And I had never even, I had never even like seen more than just, you know, this little village place, which was very like expats. Rolling, expect dense, let's say.
And it was just so cool to be able to go further out and you know, fly past beaches that were, that had nobody there. And to, to, you know, go past farmlands and see how locals live, like locals who really live there, how they live and. . Yeah. It was just really special. So definitely if you have the the budget to rent out a quad bike, I highly recommend that.
And just to go out further, you can like, Go past river crossings, like kind of mini jungles and, and crazy muddy roads and whatnot. But those are like the best parts. And there's so much gem so many beautiful places when you, yeah, just kind of go past that, that touristic hub that is Santa today.
Third thing is sunset and watching people surf, like, oh, this is something so magical about that at the end of the day. You know, you've, you've worked all day and it's say 5:00 PM and just be able to go out. And every sunset was a magical sunset. It was. You see so many people out on the beaches and surfing and enjoying live dogs, playing children playing, and it's just, yeah, you just feel really calm and really peaceful and it's just one of those places and one of those moments, every moment.
every sunset just gives you such a warm, fuzzy feeling and you just can't help but feel so grateful for life. So that was one of my favorite things to do, like always, always, never miss the sunsets. Fourth thing that I loved doing was meeting really cool humans. Through co-working spaces, hitchhiking you know, my guided tours locals in town, backpackers and travelers, like there's so many people there and I think sometimes when you are traveling so you can have such a narrow kind of it when you, so much you want to do, you can be a little bit narrow in what you are available.
Right. And consequently, when you are there for working, working, traveling, and you've got your coworking space, you can also be quite closed off as to what's available when you are so consumed by your work during the day. And then in the evening, you just wanna like go have your alone time and to enjoy life on your own.
Right. And so what's I try to do more of is to just be more open and be more available to connecting with. People, whether they be locals or travelers, or experts who live there. You know, I, it's been so eye-opening to meet so many different people, to hear their stories and take the time to ask them questions and to be curious and, and yeah, just get to know people, connect with them.
And I discovered so many new things because of it. Yeah, I learned a lot through that and I'm super, super grateful. So highly recommend just staying available for that as well, no matter what. Yeah, no matter if you're traveling alone or traveling with someone else, traveling for work just staying available and opening up to conversations.
And also sometimes being the first to initiate a conversation. You never know where it might go. So yeah, that's, One of my favorite things, fifth and last thing that I just highly recommend. But this isn't for everyone. I have to say. Ben, it's motorcycling if you can, ah, it's the funnest thing in the world to have a motorcycle and to just zoom around.
But it's not for everyone. and I. Had been looking at moped, so like vespers moped style, but nobody has that hit. Everybody has a motorcycle and there is a reason why. So I would recommend getting either a dirt bike or a motorcycle over a vesper or a moped. For, yeah, I kind of talked a little bit.
Motorcycling already. But yeah, just highly recommend that. Otherwise, if you are gonna be in a small place longer, then an ATV or quad bike could be really, really fun and a little bit safer as well. So just to round off this fun episode, I cannot wait to go back. It has been such a special place for me as a digital nomad.
Short term, this was the perfect place to base myself. I really love the community here. I feel like I got the best of both worlds as well, being by myself, being with people, being in nature, being with locals, being with expats, like there was just this. This duality that you find there. And next time I would really love to do more surfing and and not burn myself on a motorcycle, and, and do a free diving course as well.
I would love to go out there and, and do some more free diving, so I'm definitely going to be back. I also have an illegal motorcycle there, so I kind of have to go back, but that is a story for another time. Thank you so much for listening. I appreciate it. Stay adventurous, my friends. Until the next episode…
