Puerto viajo... I met Jim Carrey.. well kind of

Puerto Viajo, a town located on the carribean coast of costa rica is a vibrant little town. The feel reminds me a lot of livingston. Here carribean blacks, ticos, tourists from all countries bump heads as everyone is out for a good time. I spent the first night at the hostel Puerto Viajos. I really couldn{t complain, as my room was pretty decent. The first night, I decided to just chill out. So i{m sitting in bed staring at the ceiling and all of a sudden I start to think, man the person in the room next to me is so noisy. It{s not that the person was talking a lot, just noisy. Walking loudly, slamming things down etc. I remember thinking to myself, I hope I don{t have to run into this guy.... ppl like that really annoy me. The next morning I woke up and with a loud HELLO GOODMORNING, i got a first glimpse of the loud person next door. A tall guy, with eye glasses.. definately looked like jim carrey, kinda goofy and nerdy at the same time. With a reply hello back, I headed off to the shower. I return with sound of HEY THERE ARE HOT SHOWERS OVER THERE OKAY? saying thank you i returned to my room quickly changed and headed out for the morning to catch some grub. I ended up hanging out the chile rojo restaurant. Had some amazing pancakes.. I got about half way done with my breakfast when that jim carrey dude came in. doh! acting like i didn{t see him, the dude made his way to the back of the restaurant and picked up a conversation with a girl he apparently knew. Pretending i didn{t see him, i continued my delightful breakfast. 15 minutes later, i hear the chair beside my table move and a WELL HELLO THERE. doh! it was him. He introduced himself, started talking aboutr puerto viajo, how he was going to move here. trying to be sociable i asked him aboutr thet own, the beaches. He recommended a nice place, punto uva. apparently he was american from detroit to be exact but now lived in san jose with plans to move to puerto viajo. After a nice breakfast, i headed out on a mission to rent a bike to explore the town.

What a great afternoon. Riding a bike by blue waters of the beach lined with coconut trees. In the far reaches of forest, howler monkeys could be heard viciously howling away. I had a blast. i made the 30 min bike ride to punta uva, an amazing beach.. Swam the afternoon away. Amazing. The beach was completely mine. I swam, swam, lounged and swam somemore. I ended back to puerto viajo at 6 and had a strawberry slushy and watched the sunset over the carribean sea.

around 7 i decided to get some grub. So im walking in the main street and i hear... HEY DOC. oh shit did i tell him i{m a med student. damnit. all of sudden jim carrey dude runs down the street and tracks me down. Then he{s like sit and join me for a min while i finish up and pay myt bill. relucantly i go, and man this dude starts up a conversation about li9fe and how every particle in life emits a frequency.. something about why things happen b-c the atoms are lined up in a way and emit an aura. he was into this holistic stuff and chiropractry but not licenced yet. doh! and worse enough he was staying next to me. Sensing the inevitable being trapped by a boring and crazy dude, i told him i had to get something to eat. He countered this by following me to the restaurant i decided to go. As i sat with my green thai curry that night all i heard was about theories about why life was the awy it was... totally bizaare conversation.. I felt like i had been caught by a leech. Thankfully i ran into 2 american ppl one of which was an acupuncturist so for a brief stint i was able to have the attention diverted away as he bored her with all that nonsense. the other gal was cool as she just finished a residency in family medicine in the united states. Finally i decide to call it a night. jim carrey dude decides to do the same, except taht he follows me again. this time incisting he perform a MUSCLE TEST on me. thinking this would finally get rid of him, i agreed and then said i would go to bed shortly after. the muscle test was lame as he just pushed on my arm and told me to resist while thinking of a number. He tried to guess the number and said all this was connected to the way i was resisting. whatever. surprsingly he guessed the number. but oh well... it was a pick a number between one and 7. finally i was like.. i gotta go to bed.. he{s like alright man... but hey do u want an adjustment.... what teh fuck.. as if i were going to get whatever an adjustment was from him.. saying no, i closed the door behind me and said goodnight.

next morning, i had breakfast again... 30 min into myt breakfast i hear.. HEYYYYY MIND IF I JOIN YOU. doh! again this dude..

this guy totally was the jim carrey in that movie the cable guy. trying way to hard to be my friend... although it kinda weirded me out... i finally ended things by saying, I gotta catch a bus. good luck dude.... and that was that.. my puerto viajo journey.