Author : Rogol Ethan Rogol
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440168121
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Book Synopsis Tropical Immersion by : Rogol Ethan Rogol
Download or read book Tropical Immersion written by Rogol Ethan Rogol and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that Costa Rica is a paradise. But how does one find one's way around when streets have no names and houses have no numbers? When does one shake hands, and when does one kiss one's friends? "Tropical Immersion" is the wry and very personal story of a year in Costa Rica, the overland journey there and back, and side trips to Nicaragua and Ecuador. It details navigating the rough, narrow, busy Costa Rican sidewalks and learning to see doing so as a sport, eating fruit that smells like bodily fluids and discovering that it tastes delicious, and learning to respect reckless Mexican bus drivers whose driving could be described by the uninitiated as "terrifying" by deciphering their clever use of turn signals. The book offers a feast for the senses: rich, earthy aromas, warm wind on the skin, the bitter taste of dust in the air, the sound of birds, insects, children laughing, mothers calling their names, and laborers working the land. Its focus is not sightseeing but culture-diving ; not ogling or conquest, but participation and integration. It is part travelogue, part cultural primer, part memoir, part romance and a treatise on the being present, wherever one is.