Just think: all of Costa Rica’s beaches look like this right now. They’re empty, except perhaps for a few local residents who, I imagine, continue to take an undercover, solitary stroll here and there.
It’s a stunning, sad, beautiful thought. It’s awesome, in the true sense of that word: not positive, just incredible to contemplate. It makes me wish we were there to see these sunrises and sunsets. Then I feel somehow glad that we’re not, that all these natural places are breathing without us. Then I think of the turtles who need protection and the plastic that needs picking up and the businesses that need customers, and I wish we were there again.
Again and again, we spin through these cycles of hope and despair. I hope that remembering our beaches makes you smile and maybe wiggle your toes in imaginary sand. These coastal communities will need us more than ever, and we’ll be ready.
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katherine stanley obando 
Thank you Katherine, my compadre.
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Don’t forget the police tape and some Fuerza Publica patrolling!
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