Yes, Dan, Guabito across from Sixaola, but it closer to the Caribbean side, not Pacific. We crossed there most recently in April of 2006.

Great place to stock up on rubber rain boots. But that's about all you find, except your standard border offices, copy shop and a cafe or two.

Know that the guys and gals working the border do tend to wander away from their desks for a snack, lunch, or just to talk to somebody. They can appear official and tough but they are harmless and just bored. Be calm and just go with the flow. The bridge is risky, and you will need to pick and choose your planks carefully, but it is certainly not a show stopper.

Before there existed a road from San Jose to Puertto Limon, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Puerto Limon for two years. I taught at the Colegio of Limon, and built, with the other teachers and students, the basketball court that (2006) is half there in front of the Colegio. The other half has been eroded and fallen over the cliff.

I was barely 20 years old and fresh out of the university and the second Peace Corps volunteer to serve in Limon. I was also the second youngest person, at that time to have made it through Peace Corps training and become a volunteer.

Although Puerto Limon was/is the principle port for costa Rica, in those days, Puerto Limon was much like the smaller islands around Bocas del Toro, Panama, no automobiles, with sugar cane, cacau and of course the United Fruit companies the only real operations going. If we wanted to go to Panama, we would hop the narrow rail Northern railroad down to Pennhurst, now washed out by the river, cross and ride a mule drawn cart on the railroad tracks to Sixaola and cross into Panama at Guabito. In those days, that bridge was only for carts full of cacau or bananas and foot traffic.

I still speak "Make I tell you English" fluently and still say "May we no longer be strangers" to new friends." examples with standard English translations. this language has been officially classified as Limon English. .

"Me guanna go up college" I am going to school. "See dare one puss?" Do you see the cat? "The wa-ter walk up but the yucca no mash." The water is boiling, but the yucca isn't cooking."

Here is some unsolicited advice, and this goes for Panama too. Stop by and ask for a tour of one of the small banana cooperatives along your route. You will be glad you did, for you will see history before your eyes and you will see the pride of the people, now running their own business. You will learn a lot about bananas too.

Take it slow, put your watch away, and don't expect everyone to speed up just because you are there. You will do fine. The old timers all remembered me, 40 years later! Me and the other volunteers of that time, Larry Popejoy, who just disappeared from the Peace Corps, friends and family. Some say Larry just went native, and is still living there. And Dorla Cantu who died in service to her country as a United States Peace Corps volunteer.

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