Vents Nomades

One week already that we have said goodbye to our family Lise, Jeannette and Mylene at the airport in San Jose. They left a empty hole in our lives after 10 days of travel in Costa Rica and a desire to be again together in less than a year. We shared with them unforgettable moments such as the green turtle nesting on the Caribbean coast, the flights of hummingbirds in the jungle, animal encounters as atypical Couati and a very aggressive bird protecting its eggs ... Discovery of theArenal, its volcano, its lake and nice people! With all these feelings, we pedal to other meetings ... On the road we meet Miriam, a French Algerian women living in San José, capital of Costa Rica, who invites us into her home and her house-zome. Since a myriad of "synchronicities" have succeeded! We slept in Soledad, a super dynamic student who fights for the intensive explotation of pineapple in Costa Rica. By which chemicals and the production methods destroys the soil, environment and health of people who work there. In some areas, there is nothing else to eat except pineapple, people are starving to death... Go see www.detrasdelapina.org to learn a little more and maybe help! A meeting to another, we meet students involved in the promotion of organic farming, and through it we find a organization that we know well and who acts in Costa Rica recently: Kokopelli.Its aim is to produce and distribute seeds of old varieties of flowers and vegetables,also they protect humus: an act of life, an act of resistance of the Association Kokopelli. To support and encourage! (Click for more!) We met Eric Semillon (Semilla = seed in Spanish) President of the association in the Latin America. He and his wife were the first to organize a system of Amap in Costa Rica (Atenas)! Then we cycle to see Eric Gay, French globicycleur who traveled the world during 6 years, 70 countries and 100,000 km. He now lives in Costa Rica where he fell in love with his wife and country! He created a company InterNatura and offers tours around Costa Rica to meet the spirit of the country and its people, its treasures often hidden for the common tourists ... Tonight we will eat at the Cocusse family that goes through Latin America by bike or by firetruck with their four children ... We go then to the Caribbean coast to work on an organic farm in indigenous reserves of Costa Rica ... We'll keep you in juice (not pineapple, eh?)

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