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Travel HOME

The travels home were very beautiful. I was happy to see the big waters. As the moon becomes fuller they say this is a special time for our first foods. The ocean tides are high. The mid year is here. The sun, the moon, and the stars are our witnesses. Even though the people of this world are out of control, the one thing we have control over is ourselves. We may not all get along and we all come from different parts of this world. It is always mindful to be respectful of indigenous people when you walk upon their land. The creator gave us all our own ecosystems to live within and be a part of... humbled to meet the Ngable Bugle, we found many similar teachings. My prayer for today is that we as indigenous people find the time to slow down and continue to observe, learn, and teach. It is important how we live our every day lives, that we do not become tunnel visionsed with society and the economical train wreck that society is herding us into. Until we meet again... reduce, conserve, a
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Costa Rica

Costa Rica... where I am a Chica. Where the sun rises and sets, Central America, monkeys, sloths, and iguanas,  where the Rainforest is threatened, where rice and beans are married, bromieliads, pineapples, and tangerlimes, Nissian Frontiers, and big black vultures. San Vito. Mot Mots, Makaws, and hummingbirds. Where the tucannon sits on the tree tops calling out, where palm oil is made, where banana trees thrive, where we try to speak Spanish, the place where coffee beans grow, and chocolate is sacred. Las Cruses Biological Station. Rio Java, 7 miles hikes, lunches to go. 14 mile hike just to find the head waters. Species diversity, and species richness is high everywhere, adventures around every corner, malissa trail, water trail, gamboa trail, ridge trail was the hardest, crazy drivers, and beautiful people, where the ocean reaches out and grabs the coconuts from the trees, plants that race to the top to bless themselves with the sun. Mosquito bites and itching cream. Soccer field
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Tuesday December 18, 2018

Today was another day of completing our poster. We have done a lot work to get our information on our poster, finalize what we have and also get a glimpse of how it will look on the big screen. It was so relieving to get it all finished. There was a night hike. Kim and I was a little late for. We went trekking off into the forest looking for the groups. We seen an owl fly in front of us and land at eye level. We both were a little startled, an owl in our culture brings a message... soon after that we seen the group and their lights. We hide and scared them a bit, making noises. The Ngobli guode Celistino seen kim and tried to scare us back. We all had a good laugh. Tomorrow is presentations! So we went back to get some rest. To be continued...
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Monday December 17, 2018

This morning we hiked on the only trail we hadn't hiked on, "The Jungle trail". Every day we see new plant species and animal species. The birds and animals we usually only get a glimpse and have to ask for identification from the Ngobla people. The animals here are amazing. They do have deer here, but not on the station. Today was data analysis, we started our poster. Some good progress today. To be continued....
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Sunday December 16, 2018

Today is a day of rest. We did get to go to town and explore. Most of the stores in town was closed, but we made the best of it. A taste of San Vito on foot. 😁
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Saturday December 15

Today we successfully drove to town and located a site close to the mouth of the river. We used google maps to get as close as we could to the mouth. It was very interesting driving a little car with no power on gravel road. There was a few times we thought we would have to get out and push. We got to the end of the road and realized it ended on a farm. We almost didn't go any further. We did find the land owner and he pointed us in the direction of a trail that lead to the river. I led the way down the trail. It was obvious that cattle used the trail. About half way down, we ran into mud. I almost lost my boots. I sunk all the way to the top of rubber boots. I luckily pulled myself out. We reached the river and it was obviously very different than any other site. The water was faster, wider, and very much more cloudy. I did notice that the sand and pebbles where only hard rocks, unlike in the upper reach where we found abundant clay rocks that were easily crumbled. We did observe
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Friday December 14,2018

Today we literally walked all the way to town. We seen so many beautiful plants and trees. We didn't see any animals. The sites we worked on were at the edge of the forest boundary by the road into town. We walked up the road, popped out in town by the hospital and a little store. It was all up hill. We walked through a residential area where the locals had a crazy look on their faces as we walked by. We walked over 7 miles and caught the bus back to the station. On the bus we met the most cutest little girls who really tried to communicate with us. They sang us a song. Really made me miss my babygirls. We came back and needless to say, we needed to shower. Temperatures increased in lower elevations and the humidity is high every day in the rainforest. Dinner gets better ever night. To be continued...
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