Rocinante

This is the newest addition to the Baldwin family. Any of you that knew me (DeAnna) back in high school would notice the resemblance to my dear 1982 Ford Bronco named Amy. Anyway, this beast of a truck is a 1984 Mitsubishi Montero. He is power NOTHING. Truly, your OG dumb car, manual transmission and all. But what he lacks in bells and whistles, he makes up for with utter strength and true grit.

He also officially can sit 7 but in true Costa Rican style we often squeeze in more! He is a little temperamental, doesn’t always like to start, loves to guzzle gas, but he is the PERFECT adventure mobile. He can go just about anywhere (thank you 4WD) and bounces his passengers nicely in their seats (Corey actually about bounced out of his seat once while driving).

The particulars are this: renting a vehicle, especially the size we would need, is very expensive. Purchasing this beast, though not cheap, hopefully gives us the opportunity to resale it and break even. A woman from our school was looking to sell him and the timing worked great for us (we have a trip coming up where we will need a vehicle) so we said YES!

This was our inaugural trip to Playa Carillo, a new beach we couldn’t get to just by walking

Stay tuned to hear more about our adventures with Rocinante (and bonus points if you get the reference of his name)!