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there's also an airplane there
Sunday, 29-07-07 16:05 | single , daily , weekly , monthly ,
there's also an airplane there
a fairchild c-123, to be exact. it was once used by the united states government to ship arms and other goods to a revolutionary force in nicaragua called the contras. ever heard of the iran-contra affair? anyway, when the whole thing blew up because this c-123's sister ship was shot down in nicaragua and its CIA crewmember eugene hasenfus was captured by the sandanistas, the u.s. abandoned the one that now lives on the stretch of road between here and quepos in the airport at costa rica's capital, san jose. several years ago it was bought for $3000 and shipped here in pieces (some of which were too wide to come by road because of how narrow the busted-ass train bridges i mentioned earlier are - incidentally, those busted-ass bridges were erected by the chicquita banana company, also mentioned earlier) and now it serves as a restaurant and bar called el avion.

of course, this whole story might be more interesting if i actually had a picture of el avion, but i don't (so click on the link). i can tell you that the food there is pretty good and that drinking an imperial while sitting inside an old long-abandoned army cargo plane once involved in a secret scandal, perched on a mountain in a jungle and beach paradise is a pretty cool damn experience, in a "Lost" tv show kind of way.