In Brief we went to Costa Rica for 10 days for our honeymoon.  We rented an “Aprilia Pegaso 650 Trail” sounds like it’d be ok in the dirt right? it wasn’t.  A 450lb bike loaded up with two people and they’re two big backpacks made off roading a little more stressful than I was hoping.  I blame it on the tires, not enough weight on the front wheel and a rear shock that was way too soft.  Still it did it’s job even after I droped it in a river, taking us 8 hours down to the southern end of costa rica, corcovado and back again.  We stayed in three different regions and five hotels, though one was just a quick stop over.

The photos for the most part are in timeline order and taged with one of three region names “CerroCoyote”, “Corcovado” and “Arenal”.   Cerro Coyote was where we spent the first three nights relaxing and lazying about, before we rented the motorcycle to head down to Corcovado, a much more wild area.  Then after escaping the rivers and trials there we eventualy returned to tourism and arrived at Arenal an active volcano where we spent the last three nights.

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Making out way back from Willow Spring Raceway we witnessed the second half of a bizarre accident. A older lady in the ford SUV was heading east on the highway when she drifted across the oncoming lane and off the far shoulder of the road hitting a power line pole, breaking it, then rolling over and hitting another smaller support pole (seen in the photos wedged in the bumper)

The first power line pole she hit broke and as it, and the asociated powerlines fell across the road a fellow Willow Springs racer just ahead of us drove under the falling power line, his truck went under fine but as it fell the trailer he was pulling snaged the power line.  The line almost cut the entire top of the trailer off.

The lady, bikes and fellow racer were unharmed.  The Trailer and SUV are dead.

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