I should be in an airport in Miami right now, en route to Costa Rica, for a writing retreat. I would have landed at Liberia Guanacaste which confuses people when I tell them. Isn’t Libera its own country? I thought so, too. But apparently there’s a Liberia in Costa Rica, adjacent beaches and cliffs and wildlife I will have to discover another time because this week I’m sick with COVID.
A complex write about illness, connecting, recovery and Joyce's _Finnegan's Wake_ -- no easy novel to attempt in book club. Great to have you back online and well.
Ease in rapid recovery to you, Alicia. I would have jumped on that hyperbaric oxygen tank offer. Every branch of my healthcare team is integrative medicine based and a Cayenne pepper derivative, native spice to me, brought remarkable success. - I’m sure my parents view my suggestions similarly, as they’ve only embraced infrared therapy. Hugs.
I dare say that you're not missing much in Guanacaste. I suppose that rigorous life experiences may not add to the writer's soul, and if that's all you're after, Guanacaste is fine - you land at Liberia, and a half hour or so puts you on a Pacific beach in a placid, soulless beach town with no local color. That might be good for concentrating on writing technique, but I'm here to say that as a nonwriter I found it utterly boring.
An experience that challenges all the senses is to be found only a couple hours north over the border in Nicaragua. The beach scene in San Juan del Sur, if you must have beaches, is far more interesting and varied. Another hour or so and you can check out Ometepe, an island in Nicaragua's largest lake, and I could definitely see it being the venue for a writer's convention. Or check out the maws of hell in Volcan Masaya; a short walk to the top of the caldera and you can look down upon your fate if you have lived my sort of life.
But that's me. You're stuck at home with Covid, and of course that sucks more than Guanacaste.
We’re missing you down here in Playa Avellanas! Hope you feel better soon.
The title got me thinking like damn fine metaphor there, and then I was like wait there's an actual hyperbaric chamber?
A complex write about illness, connecting, recovery and Joyce's _Finnegan's Wake_ -- no easy novel to attempt in book club. Great to have you back online and well.
Ease in rapid recovery to you, Alicia. I would have jumped on that hyperbaric oxygen tank offer. Every branch of my healthcare team is integrative medicine based and a Cayenne pepper derivative, native spice to me, brought remarkable success. - I’m sure my parents view my suggestions similarly, as they’ve only embraced infrared therapy. Hugs.
I dare say that you're not missing much in Guanacaste. I suppose that rigorous life experiences may not add to the writer's soul, and if that's all you're after, Guanacaste is fine - you land at Liberia, and a half hour or so puts you on a Pacific beach in a placid, soulless beach town with no local color. That might be good for concentrating on writing technique, but I'm here to say that as a nonwriter I found it utterly boring.
An experience that challenges all the senses is to be found only a couple hours north over the border in Nicaragua. The beach scene in San Juan del Sur, if you must have beaches, is far more interesting and varied. Another hour or so and you can check out Ometepe, an island in Nicaragua's largest lake, and I could definitely see it being the venue for a writer's convention. Or check out the maws of hell in Volcan Masaya; a short walk to the top of the caldera and you can look down upon your fate if you have lived my sort of life.
But that's me. You're stuck at home with Covid, and of course that sucks more than Guanacaste.
i've just had Covid again myself, it's pretty horrible. I wish you better. Hopefully the climate in LIberia will help. Where can I buy that helmet?
I'm sorry to hear you're still sick! I hope you feel better soon.