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Blue_In_AK

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47. Of course, I love Alaska,

Fri Aug 24, 2012, 03:06 AM

Aug 2012

but I also really enjoyed Costa Rica when we visited my daughter and her family down there a couple of years ago. She was lucky enough to be able to take a Sabbatical and spend 8 months living on the beach in an open-air house in Montezuma on the Nikoya Peninsula. It was wonderful to spend time there with no TV, radio, newspapers ... just the beach and the palm trees, sparkling Pacific Ocean and warm sea breezes. A far cry from what I'm used to, for sure.

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