A little late, but better late than never! I'm currently writing to all of you my dear Fromagical followers from a porch of a villa overlooking the rainforest and the Pacific Ocean outside of Dominical, Costa Rica. We are totally off the grid here and it's pretty fantastic!
A little less cheese and a little more adventure for the next few days but don't worry, next weekend will be fulltime cheese with an excursion to Vermont for the Vermont Cheesemakers Fest.
Thursday was a day of travel - taxis, trains at 4am, cars, one big plane and one small plane which for the first time in my life, I had the pleasure of being put on a scale with my luggage to determine the appropriate weights for the plane. A 20 minute flight and a just recently paved runway later I had arrived at the Quepos airport, if you can call it that. Quepos itself was the biggest town it seems I will have the pleasure of encountering on this trip, except for of course the San Jose airport but that doesn't really count.
After some driving around we stopped for lunch and a drink poolside overlooking the rainforest. A fresh homemade gazpacho with a plate of fixings -- sweet peppers, jalapenos, cucumbers, onions, and sour cream. A fresh, crisp and wonderful touch to this soup.
Fast forwarding to the evening -- the next meal....what to do for over a dozen people in a villa up a very steep hill for at least ten minutes driving without any exterior lighting -- pizza it seemed.
A few people volunteered to go grab pizzas and salads for all of us from "town" -- surprisingly the caprese was incredibly fresh with thin crust and juicy tomatoes and lovely creamy mozzarella. Who knew at the end of the world you would get good thin crust pizza?
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