Griff's Travel Journal

Share the juicy deets of your worldly travels, and discuss your pipedreams for future trips.
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Jaxper wrote:These scenery shots are great, Griff!

Also, I gotta say, I love your GF's smile.
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Desertbreh wrote:This thread is the best.
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Costa Rica was 5/7. I will post pics or make a thread later. It's a beautiful country and very accessible, the people are super friendly and accommodating.
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D Griff wrote:Costa Rica was 5/7. I will post pics or make a thread later. It's a beautiful country and very accessible, the people are super friendly and accommodating.
Glad you had a great time. I've heard really good things about CR.
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Here's the first CR pics.

Swimming in a river fed by hot springs in the rain forest... it felt like a hot tub!
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Lake Arenal:
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The rental unit (we got a flat tire first night :lol: ):
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Rio Celeste, blue water river. This place was crazy.
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Downtown La Fortuna, Arenal Volcano in the background:
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Arenal Volcano National Park:
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Swimming in the La Fortuna waterfall:
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View of the mountains from the road (the roads are very twisty and pot hole filled in CR):
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That looks like a 5/7 trip! Very nice Griff.
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Awesome!
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Calvinball wrote:Awesome!
:dat: Totally bad ass.
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:mindblown: pictures Griff!
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Thanks guys, I'll post some more later, we got some really badass animal pics on my iTrud7 :waxer: potato.
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Animal pics, all taken on my potato... excuse the digital zoom, they look nice on my phone screen, kind :poop: on my 4K laptop.

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those awre awesome, that lizad pic is sweet
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BABY SLOTH :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:
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lagunasecaballs wrote:BABY SLOTH :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:
oh dang i missed teh :baby:
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We paid this dude $60 to hike with us and help us find the animals. He had a telescope tripod thing and we put the phone camera up to that, made for some pretty sweet shots. Analog zoom is a great thing.
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The iguana and the sloth pics look pretty good off-phone-screen!
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Well, I haven't updated in a while, haven't been great with taking pictures lately, but here's a few.

Plane sunset flying into Los Angeles:
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NC mountains for New Years:
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View from Loyola Marymount University near LAX:
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San Diego:
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Went to San Francisco with the slam piece.


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5/7!
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those look sick griff, dat new potato sure does take great pics.

I also missed out costa rica pics :lol: atleast the rental looks lot better than mine (dat Daihatsu), and agreed with potholes, imagine that with the :poorvette: :yikes:
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MexicanYarisTK wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:52 pm those look sick griff, dat new potato sure does take great pics.

I also missed out costa rica pics :lol: atleast the rental looks lot better than mine (dat Daihatsu), and agreed with potholes, imagine that with the :poorvette: :yikes:
Thanks man! The potato7 is indeed a pretty decent camera, I don't have those ZillSkillz though.

Daihatsu... :lolol:
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D Griff wrote:
MexicanYarisTK wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:52 pm those look sick griff, dat new potato sure does take great pics.

I also missed out costa rica pics :lol: atleast the rental looks lot better than mine (dat Daihatsu), and agreed with potholes, imagine that with the :poorvette: :yikes:
Thanks man! The potato7 is indeed a pretty decent camera, I don't have those ZillSkillz though.

Daihatsu... :lolol:
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This to be exact. It could've been better with a manual, but they gave me an auto, come on? In Turkey and Greece, you'd only get an auto for rental if you ask and willing to pay more for the same car :lol:

In San Jose, i was driving up this hill, and it was probably similar or little worse than SF hills, did not have any confidence going further, because it barely had any balls. And going downhill was :lolol: dat brake stench and even 1 or 2 modes didn't help with engine braking. Would've been different story with manual.


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