Literally, at this moment, there's a pig wandering around the Internet cafe here in Puerto Viejo, along with me, two other professors, and two students. The pig just wandered below my feet (I'm sitting on a bar stool), brushing up against me. Welcome to cyberspace, Caribbean style. All we need are a priest and a rabbi.
The Research Station installed a wireless cloud for the campus earlier this week, which means that the system promptly crashed, & we had extremely limited access to the world this week. My 4th of July deserves its own write-up, but briefly, I wandered around Monteverde and Santa Elena on my own all day, and had a fantastic time (& then had dinner with my old friend M., who's in country from New York for a week and a half, and a friend of his who came down from Los Angeles for a much shorter trip). M. & I also went night hiking in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on Thursday, before Friday's all-day bus ride across about 3/4ths of Costa Rica to get down here to the Caribbean coast. In one day, we saw the Gulf of Nicoya, feeding into the Pacific Ocean, & then drove down & waded into the Caribbean. That gives a clear sense of just how narrow the Central American isthmus really is.
I promise more pictures - between the limited email and a glitch with my card reader for my second flash card, I haven't been able to download & post those pictures. But I'm still taking them, of course.
More from San Luis in a few days!
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Just as I was reading about your rendezvous witht he pig, a certain diva brushed MY legs, on her way to her favorite sunning spot. It was as if she knew you were dallying with other species......
I was wondering if that certain diva would strike up a meaningful relationship this summer with one of a certain someone's Northampton Pride wigs... Just a casual fling before heading back to school in Boston in the fall...
Logging in from San Francisco . . . always glad to hear about your adventures. I'm having a few of my own: shopping in the 5-story all men's Macy's, my first trip ever to the Castro . . . hope your bronchitis clears up soon. x xoo g.
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