u/mysterypapaya

I love her music and have seen her in concert. I love when she takes action to help the climate/diminish animal cruelty.

But somehow, while watching s50 of Survivor, the most important season of the show, it just seemed kind of weird that she agreed to the involvement in a season that meant so much to the fans AND players....only to then laugh it off in an interview and roll her eyes and seem completely above it and disinterested. I just found this to diminish my view of her and think she would have been much better off saying "no" if she wasn't interested in this.

Thoughts?

We arrived in Uvita around 11am and went to the beach as soon as we could, walking 30 minutes toward it and arriving roughly at noon. We walked another 20 minutes on the sand, appreciating the natural location. By this point, the tide was already rising. I planned to do my favourite thing which is swim/read/swim/read, I can do this all day ! Unfortunately, the tide rose so dramatically that by 2pm there was no more beach: the tide rises up to the treeline, which is very dense and damp and filled with black dead palm fronts, crabs, lizards, rotting coconuts, so you don't really feel like laying in there and reading. I completely understand that this is part of being in a protected natural park :it’s beautiful and wild for that reason. But I think it’s worth knowing in advance if you’re planning to spend several hours there. If your goal is to relax on the beach, swim, or read, going earlier in the morning and checking the tide beforehand makes a big difference.

* I went may 18, 2026

I sprained my ankle for the first time in my life playing soccer 50 days ago and I spent the first 4 weeks resting it,.not.realising I needed to do exercices. I then bought a Wobble Board, which helped. I finaly bit the bullet and paid for physio, where I got mild accupuncture and exercises to do at home. The ecercises feel a bit strange (I don't sense it to be helping but I may be impatient!) I don't feel improvement. Its been 10 days since the physio and I've been hiking (on my honeymoon) with good hiking (ankle supporting) boots. Every other hike my ankle turns on a rock or something and burns for 60-90 seconds, but then the pain disapears and I seem fine. The ankle feels "loose" or less reliable than my normal ankle.

This is frustriatingly long! Any advice? Do I need to just keep doing the exercises rigurously and is this normal healing time? The progress seems incredibly slow.

I'm going on a 2-week trip to Costa Rica and was thinking it would be cool to download a podcast to listen to on nights where I can't fall asleep.

I really loved Against All Odd's 4-part story about Yossi Ginsberg : Lost In The Rainforrest. (3 young men go through a crazy multi-week hike through the Amazon Rainforest, with a sketchy "guide" they hired, who is just some compulsive liar/austrian-expat. And everyone almost dies, partialy due to the "guide" being a con artist.

Another story I really loved was how one of the Rockefeller sons went to Indonesia to "collect art from local tribes" and used his connections to obtain a "job" as a sound engineer on a documentary expidition ----despite having no training ---- and ended up on a raft with a translator and all his gear getting upturned. It is believed he drowned and speculated he swam to shore and was canibalised.

Would love any recommendations! Audiobooks can work, too.

Hi! I'm going to Costa Rica and looking for a PDF I can print out of the animal species to look for while there. Ideally an illustrated guide/catalog. Does such a thing exist? I want to circle and keep track of the animals.I spot while on the trip.