First National Park in Costa Rica (Drive Day 84 minus 14 years)
We’re headed for our first national park in Costa Rica, which is also THE first national park in Costa Rica – founded just two years before my first road trip down the Pan-American. But on our way to the peaceful campground at Santa Rosa we take a page out of Nicaraguan history. Camouflaged by jungle overgrowth stretch the remains of a secret landing strip whose very existence is still officially denied. Why? Because it was from this remote spot in supposedly neutral Costa Rica that U.S.-backed Contras dispatched bombing raids on Sandinista targets just across the border. It takes washed-out, river-fording, 4-wheel-drive conditions to find it – the world’s spookiest selfie spot.
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