Hey TripF,
I have been thinking similar, except I already booked Dec 23 till around new years out in Carib in CR. If your days are flexible I might not mind volunteering as wingman. I can navigate and my espanish es mas o menos.
It is a brutal bus ride I read:
http://insidecostarica.com/thetake/top_ ... comets.htm it made number five of the top ten…Eleven hours oof unless you know a different bus….It takes about that long for me to get to CR from Seattle, I am tempted to fly in to Nicaland.
Here is a story (not what you were looking for but a good story all the same). By our beloved Rico no less (inside joke).
http://insidecostarica.com/columnists/r ... aragua.htm