Mmm, the warm beach of Costa Rica. It's sweltering, people are glistening and smiling and moving slowly in the heat. Aaaah... Wish I was there. Seattle is cold and mostly cement and has no turtles. Continental Airlines and our travel agent mucked up le big time, and at 5:30am, we were trying - without success, obviously - to get on the first plane on the way to San Jose, Costa Rica. Now we're hoping to fly out tomorrow. On the upside... comped food.

Biking has been embraced by a family in Southern (one capitalizes South; should one capitalize Southern?) California, with wonderfully positive results: http://www.ocregister.com/life/erick-says-car-1847068-bike-jess Also, I suppose my travel updates will be going here.