To celebrate our two years and my next chapter and take a breather before my internship this summer and grad school starting in the fall (phew), Zan and I are headed to Costa Rica for a little over a week in early May. Can I tell you how excited I am? I've barely touched this trip. Barely researched (for me). Barely laid my hands on a spreadsheet with an itinerary. Barely booked a thing. In fact, we've booked nothing except the tickets to get us there and home. (And the home part seems optional to me.)
This trip isn't how I normally travel. It's not a chance to squeeze every bit of culture, new experiences, and sites into the eight or nine days. This trip is, can I even say it? A vacation. A true, honest to god, vacation. We won't be jumping from city to city (very much) or staying in a handful of airbnbs and hotels. On this trip, we're going to see a thing or two within a day trip from San Jose, and then we're parking ourselves in an airbnb in Cahuita on the Caribbean coast, just north of the backpacker-friendly Puerto Viejo, for 5-6 days of beaches, national parks, drinks with locals and ex-pats, sloth-spotting, and excessive R&R.
That is, if I can stay strong and fight the temptation to research every nook and cranny of that beautiful country and book our time until it's filled to the brim.
Stay strong, self, there's a Caribbean paradise just around the bend of this month.
ps - I nabbed our tickets off of Spirit Airlines for less than $350/each roundtrip! (Including fees for a carry-on bag.)
woooohoooooo!!
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