Date of events depicted: 10 February 2011
Two Crazy Chicks Productions, in association with WorldWild PhotoGraphics and What Am I Going to Tell Your Mother? Productions, is proud to present episode 5 of The Adventures of Yumiko and Eden in Costa Rica...
"On a scale of one to ten, Miko, ten being metaphysically on the verge of death, you are currently at a...?"
Yumiko considers the question for a long moment. "Seven and a half."
"Only seven and a half?" Eden asks, eyeing her critically. Yumiko is sweating profusely - they both are in the scorching midday heat - and panting, but her face is not that delightful shade Eden has dubbed I'm-about-to-pass-out red.
Our intrepid heroines are hiking in Rincón de la Vieja National Park. The trail climbs and drops through dry forest, moist forest, and transitional savannah.
They stop in the welcome shade of a strangler fig to drink some water. Though Eden is acutely aware that they are running out of time, she doesn't want to push Yumiko to the point of collapse.
She wishes that they didn't have to hurry, that they could have spent another fifteen minutes with the curious white-faced monkeys they encountered earlier, that they could have taken a refreshing swim in Blue Lake with its scenic waterfall, that now they could go slow enough to look for birds and study the flowers and let Yumiko catch her breath. But our dynamic duo worries that Freddie, their driver, is already preparing a search party.
Yumiko is at a nine and a half by the time she and Eden reach the trailhead, where Freddie greets them enthusiastically and ushers them into the waiting van for the bumpy ride back to the lodge.
While Yumiko is recovering in the back seat, Eden discovers that Freddie is an avid fan of 80s American pop music. He hands her his phone, which doubles as an MP3 player, and soon they are singing along to Starship's "We Built This City" and Samantha Fox's enduring classic "Touch Me."
"Phew! With the way we stink, nobody's gonna wanna touch us," Eden remarks once she and Yumiko return to their room. "But since we already reek, how 'bout we go horseback riding?"
Their guide is a wiry, deeply-tanned, non-English- speaking caballero named Jimmy. He points out the volcano in the distance as he leads them along dusty cattle paths to the Río Colorado. They dismount to soak their sore feet and skip stones in the cool water before beginning the return trip.
"¿Galope?" Jimmy asks.
"Lucky we have a good chiropractor," Eden calls out to Yumiko.
And they ride off into the sunset.
© Eden Feuer
Related links: Q Chiropractic
"On a scale of one to ten, Miko, ten being metaphysically on the verge of death, you are currently at a...?"
Yumiko considers the question for a long moment. "Seven and a half."
"Only seven and a half?" Eden asks, eyeing her critically. Yumiko is sweating profusely - they both are in the scorching midday heat - and panting, but her face is not that delightful shade Eden has dubbed I'm-about-to-pass-out red.
Our intrepid heroines are hiking in Rincón de la Vieja National Park. The trail climbs and drops through dry forest, moist forest, and transitional savannah.They stop in the welcome shade of a strangler fig to drink some water. Though Eden is acutely aware that they are running out of time, she doesn't want to push Yumiko to the point of collapse.
She wishes that they didn't have to hurry, that they could have spent another fifteen minutes with the curious white-faced monkeys they encountered earlier, that they could have taken a refreshing swim in Blue Lake with its scenic waterfall, that now they could go slow enough to look for birds and study the flowers and let Yumiko catch her breath. But our dynamic duo worries that Freddie, their driver, is already preparing a search party.
While Yumiko is recovering in the back seat, Eden discovers that Freddie is an avid fan of 80s American pop music. He hands her his phone, which doubles as an MP3 player, and soon they are singing along to Starship's "We Built This City" and Samantha Fox's enduring classic "Touch Me."
"Phew! With the way we stink, nobody's gonna wanna touch us," Eden remarks once she and Yumiko return to their room. "But since we already reek, how 'bout we go horseback riding?"
Their guide is a wiry, deeply-tanned, non-English- speaking caballero named Jimmy. He points out the volcano in the distance as he leads them along dusty cattle paths to the Río Colorado. They dismount to soak their sore feet and skip stones in the cool water before beginning the return trip."¿Galope?" Jimmy asks.
"Lucky we have a good chiropractor," Eden calls out to Yumiko.
And they ride off into the sunset.
© Eden Feuer
Related links: Q Chiropractic
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I take it Miko recovered enough in the bumpy van ride back to go horse back riding...despite the singing of Eden & Jimmy :)
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