For some people, it's enough of an adventure to go on vacation to an exotic resort, leaving behind their familiar surroundings, their humidifiers and refrigerators stocked with food. For some that is plenty of risk, but for me, it has never been enough to visit a country and stay at the resort the entire time, barely venturing to the beach for fear of muggers. So here I am going to Costa Rica, all by my little self. To the less tourist-filled area of the Caribbean side of the country. You should see people's faces when I tell them that I'm going, and then that I'm going by myself. "Oh why do you want to do that?" most ask while scrunching their face at me in confusion. My mom has only cried once since I told her...that's
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