Category: travel
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Day 3: Monteverde Massage
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Day 2: My Firsts
Santa Elena, Monteverde. When Anna and I arrived at night, I felt drizzle but nary a cloud existed. I was thoroughly confused. It was mist, Anna said. I talked to my mom and she said it’s the mountain’s dewdrops that clings to your skin until you’re soaked. Did the mountain cry at night for the…
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Day 1: “Romancing the Stone” Bus Ride
Costa Rica. The strip of land connecting North America to South America, melding the two physically and ecologically. And I was heading there. I’ve never been south of Barbados so my only experience of a Latin American country are through movies, books, and oral retellings. Of course, I had to watch “Romancing the Stone” and…
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Paris In My Pocket
Paris is as beautiful, dirty, crowded, and wildly romantic as I remembered it. I had hoped to find myself, rediscover what I want, all the things that would stop the pain that I had gone through. But then what can you expect in less than a week? So instead, I refocused on just relaxing, enjoying…