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A Palm Takes A Stand

We packed all our suitcases
Shook-shook out the sand
Heads jammed with rad adventures
And the palm who took a stand

After 18 glorious days in our ‘please don’t tell other people about it’ paradise, it was ‘muy muy triste! hasta luego’ time (loosely translated- Sob, it’s time to say goodbye).
Reflecting on the gorgeous memories our little tribe had made, I felt very much like the palm tree who dug in his roots when all the rest of his ‘fronds’ went eroding down the coast.

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Ah… the many glorious treasures to say Adios to…

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Colourful exotic tropical flowers wafting their sumptuous fragrances as we hiked down our little hamlet’s rough and pitted paths

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Miles and miles of deserted beach that- if we turn right- leads to ‘the point,’ (4.3 Kms return walk), where the fishing boats beach their aluminum vessels and the locals go to buy still-dancing camarones (shrimps) with tails as big as lobsters for $20 bucks a see-through bag; or,- if we turn left- the ‘never ending’ Pacific shoreline, a full-body-sweat-n-stroll sometimes interrupted by (ok quite often interrupted by) a ‘respite’ cold one at the funk-ified beach bar, Sol Y Mar (I like to think of it as Bar Interrupted- the sequel to Girl Interrupted!).    

Not quite ready for reality (hello who is?) my daughter and I book an overnighter and spa date at the San Jose (Belen) 4-Star Marriott Hotel, a pueblo-style hotel smack dab in the middle of a 30-acre coffee plantation and a hilly golf course fringed by the sprawling Cerro de la Carpintera Hills.

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When I ask myself (over and over again!) what could possibly be better than a steamy, sun-filled, laughter-jacked, exercise-jammed, tico-living, fresh-fruits-and-fish feasting, wandering minstrels-at-the-bar-holiday- with cherished family and out-laws, I can only ever come up with the same repetitive answer-
MORE… and MORE…and MORE… OF THE SAME!
When life’s a beach…make sandcastles!

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Next week from the Décor Department….Everything’s coming up Spring