Various photos

Another year older, and still in Costa Rica, still itinerant. All this traveling is wearing me down. I want nothing more than to settle down somewhere and live a good life, teaching and learning, eating good food, growing plants, making friendships. As a friend said to me last year, "every saddle chafes." No doubt there are a lot of people who look at my position and say, "wow, what a dream job!" No doubt, someday, I'll look back on this and say, "I wish I could be back in Costa Rica." But the truth is I'm tired of living out of a duffle bag. I realized that the longest I spent in one place last year was three and a half weeks, and that was at a friend's house.

No big epiphanies; no time to write anything profound. I have to be back on the road at 5 am tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some photos from the past few months: images of Mexico, Christmas in Maine, and forest surveys in early January at Bijagual.