Pura Vida: Heading to Hotel Punta Islita

Don't let the map tell you otherwise--it was a long trip.  I loved our driver!  Eddy stopped by the best fruit stand and his favorite place on the route for a casado (traditional beans & rice with protein, salad, and a lovely squash succotash), and made the best of a journey that ended with more than an hour on dirt roads.  

But somehow, at the end of the earth, we made it to paradise. 

Punta Islita, if you read the fine print, is a Marriot Autograph Hotel.  But it screams tropical destination instead of hotel, and we were grateful to arrive at the last leg of our vacation--6 nights in one place.