Departed BWI on Sunday morning, flying to Liberia A/P for an afternoon arrival. The airport at Liberia had been rebuilt since my last visit, and is now a spiffy, modern, relatively large building (it was a big hangar in 2010). Ervin, the driver for Panacea was waiting for me. Ervin and I spent the 90 minutes or so that it takes to drive from Liberia to Tamarindo, trying to figure out what each other was saying. Arrived at Panacea in time for dinner (only two other guests on the mountain, and they departed on Tuesday, leaving the whole hill to me). I spent most of the week relaxing by the pool or in the hammock in front of my cabina, reading (Dante, Alice Munro, and Wodehouse), doing yoga (90 minutes each morning), and getting massages (“relaxing massage” on Tuesday, hot stone massage on Thursday, and Thai massage on Saturday), eating vegetarian meals cooked by Debbie, enjoying a reflexology session with Peter and a facial from Debbie, and watching the howler monkeys from my porch. I spent one afternoon in Tamarindo, sea kayaking to a nearby island, and took a road trip with Mary, Debbie, and Peter to a local resort for some paddle-boarding, but most of the week was intentionally low-key, relaxing, and rejuvenating.
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