Now Molly and I are ensconced in our latest accommodation: the Hotel Pura Vida, a very nice budget room with two beds, more than enough floor space for our suitcases, and a little wrap-around porch — and hot water in the shower! After we settled in, we went to lunch at a nice but pricy restaurant (Costa Rica is quite expensive) and then decided to take a taxi over to the Finca La Isla botanical […]
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Alone in the Jungle
I’m sitting in the dark in a treehouse 80 feet in the air in the middle of the jungle in the Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge. Lightning is flashing on the distant horizon over the Caribbean and there’s the low rumble of thunder. There’s not a speck of light in any direction. Bats are whizzing by in the high canopy and a three-inch spider sits on the awning overhead. Molly and I are the only souls […]
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