ACCIDENTS • TRAFFIC JAMS in Costa Rica - Ideas on what to do in one - aka - How to make the MOST of a REALLY FRUSTRATING situation•time

This is what Costa Rican's could start doing to "ride out" these 2+ hours (sometimes) traffic backups where traffic comes to a COMPLETE HALT because of an accident!!!  Be it someone with a guitar in their car or blasting some FUN (agreeable to the masses) music to sing-along or dance to - or better yet - something to sing AND dance to!!!  It SURELY WILL take our minds off of the situation we're in!!  Make the MOST of it!!  Live in JOY!!!!  (NO mariachi's PLEASE if I'm there!!)

(2 weeks ago I was in one of those 2 hour traffic jams as I was coming back from a Visa Run on a Friday night on the PanAmerican Highway [sitting in a running bus - luckily it was NOT a bus with air-conditioning as fumes could easily have been going back in the bus, and luckily it was not raining at THAT moment since it had been 20 minutes before we stopped - and luckily I had an open window seat] and trust you me, the people [myself included!!!] did not seem to be in their "happy space"!)

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TRAVELERS IN COSTA RICA HINT!! 
If you have a flight to catch - do NOT risk getting stuck in this situation which DOES happen ALL to OFTEN (ESPECIALLY in Rainy Season it seems. Anyone know if it's true??).  Stay in a hotel CLOSE to the airport the NIGHT BEFORE!!  EVEN if you have a flight before noon!!  If you don't - allow yourself to arrive at LEAST 6 hours BEFORE you're supposed to get there because if you miss your flight - YOU WILL be buying yourself another ticket and most likely Full-Price as it was NOT the airlines fault!!

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WHAT TO DO NEARBY:

Go to THE POPULAR, American-owned (by the cutie Norm) and TASTY
JALAPENOS Central Tex-Mex Restaurant
just 10 minutes-ish from SJO Airport
LivingLifeInCostaRica.blogspot.com/2013/12/JalapenosCentralTexMexAlajuela.html

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HOTELS
(I'm slowly working on a list of hotels•places to stay nearby)

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SAFETY
WhatEVER you do - IDEALLY try to go and check your luggage in and go out exploring around - or at least put your luggage in your TRUNK BEFORE getting to where you're stopping off to eat or whatever as people ARE WATCHING and can easily pop your trunk or a window (just like AAA can do).

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