1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - And I soon joined her with one of the paperbacks I had brought for the trip.
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - After several days in the dampness of the rain-drenched Avenal volcano region and the Monteverde cloud forest, we were glad to see sunlight as we arrived at our next stop:  The Hotel Arenal Pacifico in Jaco Beach on the Pacific coast.
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - During the early mornings we could walk along the nearly deserted beach.
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - In the evenings, we would take a cab into the beach resort town where there was always a margarita - and an emergency back-up margarita - waiting for us.
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - We soon discovered that the hotel - on the outskirts of the resort town - had so few guests that we generally had the two pools to ourselves.  (But we also discovered that the hotel had shut down its restaurant and even worse, its bar!)
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - Jeanne immediately took to a poolside deck chair to catch up on her reading.
1000places > Costa Rica means "rich coast" in Spanish.  We picked it as the destination for our retirement vacation - the first time in more than 25 years that we could go somewhere for longer than two weeks.  We found an amazing country where education, health care, and now environmental preservation are clearly national priorities.  And we found Costa Ricans - Ticos are their common name - to be genuinely friendly with touristas.
JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - And I soon joined her with one of the paperbacks I had brought for the trip.
1000places > JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - And I soon joined her with one of the paperbacks I had brought for the trip.
JACO BEACH, COSTA RICO - And I soon joined her with one of the paperbacks I had brought for the trip.
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