Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale)

One of the women I’m hiking with just non-chalantly said Trump has done some great things amongst the bad, and she wishes someone would clean up immigration in London. #yikes

This is honestly very unusual for a dedicated hiker. At least to admit out loud.

A view of mountains with jungle and clouds.

The landscape on the Pacific side of Costa Rica.

They’re baaaaaaaack! 🪶

Very sorry for your loss.

Pink/purple orchid blossoms against a grassy field.

Pine pink orchids, Costa Rica #bloomposting

A red headed staring eyed woodpecker on a bare tree.

Lineated woodpecker

Oh! And hummingbirds!

14km and 800m up in the heat. My upper thighs will want a divorce tomorrow, but I’m feeing good.

Spotted: many toucans, huge iridescent blue butterflies, slow swinging buzzards

#hiking in Costa Rica

Not yet

A boat with white sails in blue ocean under a hazy blue sky.

View of the water, Costa Rica

Walked, watched monkeys, swam in the ocean, saw crocodiles, toucans, lizards and scarlet macaws. What a lovely place.

White-faced Capuchin clinging to a tree

Monkey

A large crocodile hangs out off a gravel bar in a river.

May skip swimming in rivers…

Huh. I bet it would make a good film.

So deeply stupid.

My entire senior year I played the Spike Jones catalogue repeatedly. I’m amazed nobody in my dorm strangled me in my sleep.

Good.

My other note from that tour is that the Catholic Church has a lot to answer for in Costa Rica.

I’ll look for it, thanks! He was kind of a joke in the US it seems. But not here.

My sources note it cannot be proved he caused the outbreak, but Costa Ricans believe it to be true.

With mercenaries, he invaded— among other places— Nicaragua— where he took control and relegalised slavery. Costa Rica, realising he would not stop, invaded Nicaragua to be rid of him.

He was defeated, but dumped bodies in the waterways and caused a cholera outbreak which killed 20% of Costa Rica.

Walker had the idea that to prevent the civil war, he had to move plantation slavery to Central America as colonies. 2/X

I took a history/art tour in San Jose yesterday. The young woman giving it was clearly far more passionate about history than art, but fair enough.

In one morning I discovered that William Walker existed (nothing we learned about in school) and his outsized impact on Central America.

🧵

I am an idiot. I fell asleep at 6pm without eating and woke up at 2:15

A Cook stands pensively next to a pot of beans and a pile of bread well behind her a happy customer enjoys the food

Central Market, San Jose

It was, sadly.

Aw, young dj

me in another decade. the hair! the chin! still got the 1210s mind.

not a 90s picture, but 2011, on a bright weekend when i was trying to get over a breakup and took myself to cowal for the weekend, and ended up spelunking through a 1970s workers' village that was never occupied

What a lovely picture. My lantern is still in storage. I was class of 90