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08/04/2025

07/30/2025

I’ve spliced together 15min of video clips from the Young family’s 3hr off-road ATV expedition in La Fortuna in Costa Rica.

I created the video with my iPhone in a water proof pouch that we got on a family trip to the Walt Disney World water parks many years ago.

I probably should have bought a GoPro camera versus a waterproof phone pouch hanging around my neck. I had my iPhone filming until the battery ran out and most of the video was blurry and unclear due to my iPhone bouncing around the entire trip.

I was just able to capture a few seconds of the awesome hot springs we visited on the way back before my my iPhone battery was completely depleted. I wasn’t able to revive my phone with a backup battery pack for the rest of the trip, as I kept getting an alarm that water had been detected inside the phone.

Fortunately, I was able to revive my iPhone with a hair dryer at our Airbnb and continue taking photos and videos for the rest of the trip.

With that being said, I was still able to splice together around 15min of awesome video clips from our ATV excursion.

One of the highlights of the video was Jack almost getting stuck in a large mud pit and successfully getting his four wheeler unstuck.

I did not get this on film, but unfortunately had yet another 1980’s Clark Griswald-like moment (From the 1980’s classic movie, “National Lampoon’s Vacation”), and tried to show off by plowing Melissa and I’s ATV through the same mud pit that Jack successfully got through earlier on.

I was not so lucky and two wheels of our four wheeler went up into the air and we almost slowly turned over into a deep pit of mud.
I eased up on the gas, we sunk in the mud, and our ATV guide pulled us out with a rope.

Melissa and I were utterly covered in mud as a result. And our tour group agreed that I am probably the closest thing to a real life Clark Griswald.

Melissa was, rightfully so, not happy about this. And I was much more careful driving for the rest of the trip!

07/29/2025

We had an awesome trip touring Costa Rica from July 13-20th to celebrate Melissa’s 50th birthday. I took a ton of photos and videos and will be editing and posting some of them as I have time.

This video is about 12 minutes of spliced together video clips of our drive down main and back roads from the airport in Liberia to the Hotel El Silencio del Campo in La Fortuna in a Suzuki 4x4 SUV that we rented.

Thank goodness Melissa downloaded all of our Google maps travel destinations prior to the trip for offline use so that our GPS would continue to work in back road areas where we didn’t have cell reception.

Following the Hotel El Silencio del Campo, we stayed in an Airbnb in La Fortuna. And then traveled to an Airbnb on a coffee farm near Turrialba.

Unfortunately, our rental car broke down and would not start on Saturday, July 19th around noon. Fortunately, we had just stopped at a restaurant for lunch near our Airbnb, and if we were going to break down then it was one of the best places to do so.

The restaurant staff was awesome in helping us contact our rental car company to send a technician. Jack was awesome and spoke in Spanish to communicate with the restaurant staff and rental car technician that arrived on a motorcycle to work on our car.

I was translating in over seven ancient languages back in college and graduate school, and so I was completely useless in communication when our car broke down.

After jump starting the car and letting it run for a while to charge the battery. Our concern was that we had a 4.5 hr drive down mostly back roads with poor cell reception the next day to our next Airbnb at the beaches of Manuel Antonio and then had a 3.5hr drive to the San Jose airport to fly home on Thursday, July 24th.

The rental car company agreed to replace the battery at one their locations on the way to Manuel Antonio, but did not agree to swap out our car out with a different car.

They were probably right that the battery was the primary issue in our car not starting. However, our rental car had 50,000 miles, and our concern was what if it was something else wrong with the car and not the battery? What if the alternator was starting to go for example?

Since we were already two hours from the San Jose airport, we decided not to risk the car breaking down again in the remaining 8hrs of driving over the next few days. Also, a tropical storm was passing over the Manual Antonio area over the next two days. And so our gut feeling and intuition was to drive straight to the San Jose airport to fly home a few days early on Sunday, July 20th.

It was an awesome trip, and I will post more videos as time permits.