Almost home

Things I will, and will not, miss about being in Costa Rica (an incomplete list).

I will miss:

• Almost never being cold
• The actually useful (if at times terrifying) bus system
• The beauty of the flora and fauna all around me (yes, home is gorgeous too, but it’s different)
• The ocean and it’s warmth
• The sunsets
• The brightness of the stars and moon (damn light pollution back home)
• The sense of life being more simple
• Not “working” (obviously I’ve worked hard, but not had a job in the traditional sense)
• The lack of commute
• Cameroun (little sister I never had)
• The whole family here at Establo San Rafael
• The tribe at VerdEnergia
• True community living
• Farm work
• The food
• My leg hair
• Any and every body of water being warm enough to enjoy comfortably
• Early to bed/early to rise being an acceptable norm
• The goats
• The sound of rain on tin roofs
• Not needing to know the date
• Waking up with no alarm, and only fullfilling things to do in a day
• Fresh juices from native fruits

 I will NOT miss:

• Roosters. OMFG the roosters
• Other loud ass birds at 5am (or 4am sometimes, damn things)
• Being able to tell when it hits 8am because I have started sweating
• Ants
• Ants
• Ants
• Also, Ants
• Chiggers
• Mosquitoes
• Ants
• The instability of internet access
• The inherent terror of being in a vehicle on the roads
• Hell, the roads themselves
• The fact that there is an epic hill between any point A and point B in this country
• The constant itching
• The swollen feet
• Giant spiders
• Cockroaches 
• The feeling of jeans when you've dried them on a line.  So.. crunchy!