San Jose, Charlotte, Los Angeles

We got to San Jose and found our hostel after a bit of searching, it was really well hidden. It was just a door in the side of a wall where you have to get buzzed in, but when you get inside it's a strange labyrinth of rooms and different levels. It was a nontraditional design for sure. It had a rooftop bar which was pretty cool, you could see the skyline of San Jose (it was noted that the tallest building was the Holiday Inn). Our room had a grate on the ceiling that was just open to the outside, that was also a bit weird. We walked around the city for a bit that night to find an ATM and get dinner, and had a semi terrifying encounter at the ATM with a guy walking down the street covered in blood. At first I thought he had a cut in his neck, but he wasn't acting like he was hurt or like he was someone that had lost so much blood (it really was everywhere on him, the whole right half of his body and clothes), so he probably murdered someone else and it was their blood all over him. I saw him coming and was pretty startled, and then he started talking to us asking for money and I was not sure what the hell to do, like if we didn't give him money would he murder us too?? Thankfully he went along down the street pretty quickly after stopping to talk to us, smoking his post-kill cigarette and looking generally insane. We decided to go back to the restaurante next to the hostel after that, as to avoid death/rape/stabbing that might occur on a longer walk home at a later hour in San Jose.

The next morning we got some souvenirs at the markets and ate breakfast and drove back to the car rental place. Thankfully all the damage was covered and the rental guy wasn't pissed off at all. We got to the airport and started our full day journey back to the US. I would say the highlight of that day of travel was playing wheelchair football at the Charlotte airport in North Carolina in the middle of the night, things were pretty slow. We got back to LA eventually the next morning. All in all, it was an awesome trip, great times with great friends (Four friends working together! Solving unexpected things Costa Rica throws at them! Sung to the tune of the MacGruber theme!). I for sure got to do a bunch of new things and had a great time exploring the country with my buddies, it was definitely a great post graduation excursion and I was really happy with every part of it. Can't wait for the next adventure.