What are we doing in Costa Rica?

Every couple of days, in the middle of endless preparations, one of us will look over and say, “Remind me again why we’re doing this?”

Without a doubt, it is easier not to take the trip. It’s easier to stay home. We could wait until the kids are older, or we have more money, or we’re retired, etc. etc. We’re going now because we can, and because we’re treating this as only the first of potentially many more “outings” like this.

I’m not all that interested in adventure. Though this is probably adventurous on some level, it’s not the adventure it would have been, say, fifty years ago. I hope we will learn a lot and become better citizens of planet earth. I hope my children will grow up comfortable with all kinds of people and different cultures, and this is just one small step in the grand scheme of things.

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