Last month I traveled to Costa Rica to attend CSCW, a large conference. I had hoped to go paragliding before the conference started, but the weather was unseasonably rainy, so I wasn’t able to fly, although I did succeed in getting myself and my paraglider absolutely covered with angry, biting ants. The conference itself was held at the national convention center of Costa Rica, which, although a beautiful building, is out in the suburbs next to a big highway - not much within walking distance. Although it rained pretty much the whole trip, I still was able to escape to a few interesting sights, and I enjoyed walking around with my camera during breaks at the conference. On the way back, I visited Luca and Caroline in Houston, and wandered around seeing some Houston sights as well.
Enjoy and let me know what you think!
A church along the Carretera Interamericana, high in the mountains of Costa Rica.
A group of women walking along the road on the slopes of Volcán Irazú.
Plastic barrels sitting in a field of foggy crops on Volcán Irazú.
A pigeon inside the abandoned Durán Sanatorium
The abandoned Durán Sanatorium, constructed in 1918 to treat Tuberculosis patients.
Street scene just across the highway from the convention center in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Overgrown power lines along the streets of San Jose.
Transmission lines in Houston, Texas.
A highway overpass in Houston.
Saturn V rocket detail at the Johnson Space Center, in Houston.