Drive time. . .

For those that are coming (or thinking of coming) to Costa Rica: It's fine to drive. Most of the roads are two lanes (even the "highways") and can be windy and curvy with switchbacks and plenty of hills.

It really isn't that bad, though, compared to other parts of the world.

For all the dorks who don't watch the History Channel and "Ice Road Truckers" we encourage you to check out "IRT: Himalaya's Deadliest Roads." (Yes, more than likely, the producers are running out of story lines for the ice and are shifting it to more dangerous locales.)

This is where they take a bunch of truckers from the States and Canada that spend their winters driving over sheer ice to take supplied to remote locations, and they have now plopped them in India, driving on some truly treacherous roads.

These roads will make you pucker and long for anything even semi-safe. Comparatively, the roads here in Costa Rica are super highways.

Personally, I haven't driven these roads, but did hop a jeep ride from Tibet into Nepal many years ago and the bridges and roads look suspiciously the same.