On a road to nowhere

I think the last straw for us in Tamareemdo was losing our deck of cards, so today we decided to head over to the Caribbean coast of the country. We had some breakfast, packed up and caught the 11:20 am bus to Liberia, where we then got the 4:00 bus to San Jose...and nearly 12 hours later, we finally made it to the capital. What should have been a quick 4 hours down the Panamerican Highway turned out to be one long wait on the bus in the middle of the night. There was an accident at some stage. Apparently a mack truck had overturned somewhere up ahead. So the bus turned off the engine, along with all the other cars, trucks and buses we could see, and we sat there waiting. And sat and sat, in the dark of course. At one stage our iPod ran out of batteries, so we sat and did nothing. Over 7 hours later, the bus slowly inched along and we were finally able to pass (this being the only road, and one lane each way). We got to San Jose just before 4:00 am.