Traveling in 2020 the year of the pandemic is a whole new kettle of fish. We have many questions: Will Costa Rica open its borders to Americans? Will flights be safe? What travel restrictions will be in effect?

With tickets in hand we now needed to make a plan for our Costa Rican adventure. Though Costa Rica isn't a large country (it only encompasses 19,370 square miles) it is very diverse with many different climates and wildly different terrain. In a trip of just seventeen days we wanted to see as much as we could without spending all of our days in a car.

The spark was ignited and then the intrigue built. How could one not be tempted by craigslist ads that read as follows: