My family said I should go to help my youngest brother buy property overseas, and my love of travel and adventure automatically said “yes” to their request.
Forty eight hours later, my brother and I descended from a small hopper flight into a little village on the edge of the great Pacific rainforest. The roads were clay, with holes the size of small yachts. It was dusty. As Spanish was spoken all around me, I did not ask why he or anyone would want to purchase property here of all places, but my thoughts were screaming the question nonetheless.
We boarded a large pickup to travel to our resort and it was dusk when we arrived. I ate a light dinner and retired to my room, flashlight in hand, to get ready for bed.
It was upon awakening the next morning that first, I heard the roar of the Pacific and when I stepped out on the deck of my room, which jutted out over the ocean, I was breathtaken.
Color was everywhere, from the soft green swollen waves of the pacific, to the flash of green thick foliage surrounding me. I saw a Macaw squelling in the sky above and flowers of all shapes and colors clinging to their hosts below. It was a raw, primitive beauty that I had never seen before.
I was in love, a love that has lasted over twenty years. A love so passionate that I moved here.
Yes, the roads are still dusty and the sewers not repaired, but the beauty of this natural world remains
This glorious hand of the universe always lets me know what is truly important in life: and it was not the property my brother came to buy, it was the beauty of nature itself that held me in its dreams.
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I understand the serendipity behind Debby’s words,and the pleasure one can attain while communing freely with the eternal spirit found in Costa Rica.
Oh, my gosh! Based on what Debby said and how poetically she said it, I am ready to move to the place she describes. What a good writer and what beauty she paints with her words.
I am her brother and have been in love with Costa rica for years before the trip with my sister. I have traveled the world but the Osa Peninsula captured my spirit along with the tican people. I fully understand Debbys love of the place. Her article was beautifully written an expressed how many of us foreigners feel about the place. Costa Rica offers beauty,spritual Wellness and peace but also offers true individual freedom lost here in the States. I appreciate Debbys articulate way of expressing what many of us feel. Thanks Rhett Seabrook ie “little brother”
I have never been able to put into words my feelings of my experience when first traveling to Costa Rica as you have. I too fell in love with not only the beauty of this country but with the wonderful people living there.
Thank you for your input