Home from Costa Rica

If you haven’t noticed the latest couple of items on my twitter feed, I’m back from ten days of a trip to Costa Rica. I have a lot of pictures to process and post and a lot I’d like to write if I ever get around to it. To summarize, I

  • went to the edge of a volcano crater that was too foggy to see
  • tasted a raw coffee bean
  • walked among butterflieshistop>
  • saw people packing bananas that had just come in from the field
  • rode on a bus for 2 kilometers on a road flooded six inches deep
  • saw sloths, monkeys, crocodiles, caimans, lizards, and two dozen kinds of birds I had never heard of a month ago
  • walked along the beach on the Caribbean and the Pacific shores
  • changed boats in the middle of a river (I’m convinced the first boat broke down because the driver slammed it into reverse when he saw a jaguar swimming across the river)
  • saw acres and acres of pineapple fields — I’m not worried about the supermarket running out of pineapples for us to buy
  • (illegally) crossed the border into Nicaragua
  • walked on suspension bridges 50 meters above the rain forest
  • got a cha-cha lesson (all right, a group lesson) from the winner of a TV dance contest show

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male born 1944 mathematician by training, software engineer by profession; retired since Labor Day 2013 birder, cyclist, unicyclist, eraser carver, knitter when possible

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