Well seems I just passed the half-way point for 365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica. Writing these posts has been quite a journey for me. Within the previous 183 one can find information about Costa Rica (what the blog was originally supposed to be), my frequent political rants, bouts of self-loathing, as well as a panoply of predilections related to my love of Costa Rica and its people. Who knows what might lay in store for the next 181 posts. You might be wondering what is the end game to all this? Where are you going with this thing Costa Rica Guy? I mean what happens after you reach the coveted 365th Reason? That my friend is the $64,000 Dollar Question. And if you think for a moment that I would cheapen myself by divulging the answer in this post, well, ain’t gonna happen. I have lived here in this “last country created by God” for quite a few years now and I still can honestly say that, yes indeed, I do love Costa Rica. My hopes and dreams for the future continue to lie here, even though the current economic crisis seems to have tossed the proverbial “monkey wrench” into the machinery of my aspirations. But then again, life always has its ups and its downs and I guess in many ways that makes it more interesting. There is nothing more stifling to one’s creativity and drive than a prolonged stretch of “smooth sailing.” The water does remain quite nice here in my beloved Costa Rica, despite the upheavals the world seems to be experiencing these days. Being here is sort of like living in a comfortable cocoon with a small window through which I am able to peer out and see the rest of the world. I am sure my vision is clouded by the fact that “seeing” and “experiencing” are two quite different things. Its hard to know what life in the U.S. is really like right now because I am not there, physically, even though the problems being experienced there have seeped into my supposed peaceful existence in Costa Rica. It seems that being in the tourism business makes you vulnerable to just about any economic event that occurs in the world, probably because a vacation is the ultimate discretionary expense. But oh well, at least I get to travel around this place really really cheap….a luxury I sorely need right now since the reluctance of you people in the U.S. to spend a dime on a Costa Rica vacation these days has me flat broke most of the time. But I would rather be flat broke here than anywhere else any day. So I will keep on writing and suffering under the illusion that there might just be someone out there who is actually reading and maybe even getting some enjoyment out of my daily posts that are, at least peripherally, related to the Reasons I Love Costa Rica.

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