It only took a couple of decades to figure out I’d been duped

I grew up with mounds of snow in the winter. Sometimes, we couldn’t find our car.

Whenever it snowed a heap, my mother would place me in front of the snow bank, which was usually taller than me and the backyard fence, for a picture. I spent the next 20 years trying to convince myself that it was completely normal to wear long underwear for 120 days in a row.

‘It keeps the riff-raff out,’ one radio announcer liked to say when the cold settled in each year.

People bonded over the snow and the cold, afraid to mention that chipping ice off the sidewalk really sucked and driving between snowplows during a blizzard was adventurous.

My father was a farmer, transplanted into the city at an early age. He didn’t believe in traveling much.

Before I was 20, I didn’t see much more of the world than the Midwest. In my 20’s, I began traveling to sunny places during the winter. Sitting in my bathing suit in February with a Piña Colada in my hand, I knew I had been duped.

I no longer thought watching my breath freeze in the air or comparing the length of icicles on eyelashes for several months out of the year was entertainment.

No one in Costa Rica plugs their car in at night. The climate, beauty, and tranquility of Costa Rica draw over one million tourists a year to a country inhabited by a little over four million.

The majority of the people I know think Costa Rica is a safe, warm place to live, though it has its problems. But what doesn’t?

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Written by Susan Lutz who is a film maker and writer living in Costa Rica. Her documentary film, The Coffee Dance available for sale an Amazon.com, follows a group of women in the depths of poverty as they strive for empowerment. She teaches film and lectures in Costa Rica. She’s produced radio documentaries and is currently finishing her first travel book on Costa Rica. She writes an internationally recognized blog on life in Costa Rica, Motherjungle.com and is the editor of the Organic Living Page on Allthingshealing.com

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