LOS CHILES - Well, we are camped out in Los Chiles, Costa Rica, trying our best to avoid the chaos that is Semana Santa. The Costa Ricans celebrate Good Friday in a big way. Everyone closes shop and goes on vacation. Which is fine, unless you are a traveller trying to take buses or need to purchase something. Suddenly everthing became a big hassle... the buses were all full and all destinations were booked. So we found a quiet little town way up by the Nicaraguan border, where not much happens, and are hiding for a few days until the storm passes.

So the only thing of interest to report about in the last few days are Costa Rica´s Pre Columbian stone spheres. So heres the deal. Some 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, the communities in Costa Rica decided to build these huge balls out of rock. Some got to be up to 6 feet in diameter and weigh multiple tons. The communities back then only had stone tools, and the spheres were perfect within 5mm. No one really knows why they built them, though some of them were lined up pointing north or in other patterns. I thought that was pretty intriguing.

Heres Tom with one we came across in San Jose, the capital. Tom was not quite as impressed by the big stone balls as I was. Yeah, its not Stonehenge, but you gotta wonder...