Happy, full of ideas and creativity. Still about work. At the outset, it was pouring and swirling brown torrents were chomping at the roadside threatening to flood. Instant worries about mudpits, flat tires, and broken axels. Our guide Javier appears to be coaching Marvin the driver, so there is no consolation there.
Swifts dive for insects outside our panoramic room.
Javier warns us as we approach. Poas guards its privacy. When we arrive it is shrouded in thick white mist. We shrug it off and study birds and plants. Slowly, teasingly, the mist is blown away.