Big tree

A lazy day. The loss of momentum as we reach the end of this holiday is noticeable and inevitable. We have sort of run out of things to do but more so, the energy to do them. Our bus and flight leave for home tomorrow. I buy another book, this time about adventurers up Everest. I am quite content but Al is bored so we head off to the actual Monteverde cloud forests, so at least we can say we saw it. Another walk in the woods? Yes, but more impressive woods they are. We still come no closer to seeing the elusive “resplendent Quetzal” nor any other form of mammal or bird. However, we discover later that the Quetzal migrate from June to September – so we were hardly likely to spot one anyway. Nevertheless, the walk and the views are impressive. I have to spend a lot of time looking at my feet – one problem with an irregular path – so there is not too much time to study the forest.
On the bus on the way home there are two 16 year-old American girls who look strangely out of place but seem to live here and go to school. The fact that Al and I oggle at them tells me it must be time to go home. Al and I dine out on pizza as a celebratory last nosh up.
We’ve had a great time in Central America. Somehow I think the travelling bug inside me is satiated for now; which is a good thing really given my pending career. We discuss future travel destinations and none spring rapidly to mind.

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