Costa Rica Tour
Costa Rica Tour
Sit right back and I’ll tell you all
About our recent trip
Somewhere in Costa Rica
We left our cruise line ship
The bus ride – uneventful
Out through the country side
The vistas were fantastic
Then came the bumpy ride
The bus jerked to the left side
Then right back to the right
Those seated at the windows
Received a dreadful sight
On the left side was a rock wall
The other naught but air
And with each bump the bus took
We feared we’d end up there
The road up through the forest
Was narrow and was steep
With hair-pin turns and pot holes
And ruts that ran feet deep
We left the bus and took a walk
Through forest’s canopy
A Toucan, a king Vulture
Were two birds we did see
Then over in the distance
Up there among the trees
Suspension bridges crossed a gorge
And there were three of these
At first some folks were nervous
The tension you could feel
Then one by one we crept across
These swinging trails of steel
Then half way through the first one
We ran into some bees
They stung us in our elbows
They stung us in our knees
With flailing arms and legs we fought
The bridge began to swing
Somehow we made it over
Despite the swing and sting
The next bridge was a swinger
Much more so then the first
And once across that swing bridge
We hoped it was the worst
But number three was high and long
And appeared need of repair
It bounced, it swung, it creaked and moaned
So high up in the air
And once across, we turned around
And crossed that bridge again
Back to the buss after that walk
We gladly climbed back in
And then it rained, and rained some more
Then the heavens opened wide
Down muddy roads in pouring rain
The bus and we did slide
We stopped then in a garden
Our noon time meal we had
That native food sure hit the spot
And wasn’t all that bad
With rice and beans and chicken broiled
And ever so much more
Out on a porch, out of the rain
It warmed us to the core
And when the rain let up a bit
The garden we explored
The fan palms and the waterfall
Were simply just adored
All that was left, the bus ride back
To board our cruise line ship
And that concludes the story of
Our Costa Rica trip
Copyright © Mike Dailey | Year Posted 2014
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