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Costa Rica: August 25th-December 9th
This may be the craziest decision I have ever made.
Things I hate that I will be encountering (often) upon this adventure: hiking. bugs. exercise. waking up early. beans and rice. dirt.
To give you more of an idea, I (luckily, for I don’t think I received all required doses) tested positive for hepatitis A and B antibodies and thus don’t need those shots. That leaves me with the following vaccines:
1. diphtheria 2. typhoid 3. cholera
Apparently rabies and malaria are optional. Dengue, a tropical disease just outbreaking in Costa Rica, has no vaccines so just cross your fingers
However, there are things I like: monkeys, ocelots, rain, Spanish, volcanos, Costa Rica, Latin America, banana plantations (lucha y resiste!) and the like. So I’d say the balance is hopefully in my favor.
I will be posting periodically to prove my survival, and hopefully will have some interesting stories to relate. Though just to prewarn everyone, there is limited internet access
