
[Our guide] spoke like this: “Zebras and wildebeests are friends.” “The enemy of the baboon is the lion.” Animals did not make sounds. Instead they had “voices.” He told us which conducted “revenge attacks” and why. Trees did not have habitats, they had “rules for living” Elephants — intelligent, social, and so improbable — were…

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“On arrival, I knew that everyday life in Costa Rica was about to change. Where would I be safe? How long could I stay? How would I be able to return to the US? Jose & Norman told me that they would never ask me to leave. “Usted es familia. This is from the heart,…

I use brilliant to refer to a style of travel in the sense that a jeweller uses it to describe a gem. A gem is a precious stone cut to reveal both the beauty inside as well as to refract the light around it. Travel takes the rough gem that is each of us in…