So I walked into my apartment today at 20:00, exhausted from going all over the world running errands. As I unlocked my door, a deep, weighty, sense of dread hit me...or maybe that was just the huge backpackers backpack I threw on the floor (my recent purchase from Academy Sports and Outdoors). In truth, it was less of a sense of dread and more of a mild freak-out. I mean seriously, what in the world did I call myself doing?! Traveling to Costa Rica by myself for 11 days with absolutely no plans, no friends, and no definite place to go?! To understand the scope of what I'm dealing with, you must understand my previous travel experience. While plentiful (we took a family vacation outside the country generally once a year), all our family vacations were
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