Last Updated on May 20, 2020 by PowersToTravel
If the plains of the Serengeti weren’t enough, one year later we somehow found ourselves in the jungle lodge “Tortuga Lodge and Gardens” in Tortuguero, Costa Rica.
All of my life I had feared the bugs and heat of the Central and South American jungles. As a child and tom-boy, I had read the children’s series Tom Quest (http://seriesbooks.info/quest.htm) dreaming of heroic adventures, but always in fear of the poisonous spiders and snakes. I grew a healthy fear that through lack of care the high heat would destroy my insulin.
Somehow the confidence created by the African trip propelled us to Costa Rica, and on our second day in the country we booted up and headed out on a walk in the wet jungle.
I can still feel the humidity as my clothes stuck like glue. I peered intently at the path, ready to avoid the poisonous snakes. My head swiveled, on the lookout for pouncing or gliding spiders. We saw no mammals; we did see several tiny poison dart frogs, and I was grateful for my camera’s telephoto lens. This may sound like an uncomfortable, unrewarding event, however I can still feel the wonder that I, the fearful diabetic, trekked the jungles of Central America.
