tico suave

There's nothing like driving 180 km through three tropical zones and flying across half a continent to make you feel like you've traveled. We're back from Costa Rica, and I can now say I've accomplished a number of "firsts":

1. Made love to a married woman
2. Ridden horseback through plantation fields
3. Played with a monkey, and not meant it as a euphemism
4. Received a hot oil massage from a man ... and liked it
5. Observed a Toucan without Fruit Loops somehow being involved
6. Swung through trees like a modern (i.e. heavily-secured) Tarzan
7. Listened to howler monkeys awaken in the rain
8. Watched the sunrise from a private mountainside villa
9. Found the only place on Earth with worse drivers than Austin

Hopefully there will be many pictures and stories posted shortly. In the meantime, I'm going to get some sleep and dream in happily nonsensical Spanish.