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Somewhere around Day 9 or Day 10, a realization surfaced quietly and
then refused to leave: even at this pace — even with this level of efort
— we were barely scratching the surface. If Costa Rica is a library of
biodiversity, we didn’t read the whole thing. We didn’t read a shelf. We
read a page. Maybe less. And the strange thing is, that realization didn’t
feel disappointing. It felt clarifying.
Because modern travel oven sells the illusion of completion. You
