Sophie,
the more i have been reading and researching lately, the more depressing it has become to live in this country. every country has its hangups, pluses and minuses, but the most disturbing thing about the US is how difficult it is to get organic, whole foods.
Not being able to get organic whole foods is just one small part of a MEGA-
HUGE problem, the rule of the global corporatocracy, which owns this country
and a great deal of the rest of the world. You may also add to the list:
all the governmental alphabet agencies, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the IRS,
the DEA, Homeland Security, you get the picture; the Fed; chemtrails;
the tyranny of Big Pharm; the wars without end, the appropriation of
natural resources which do not belong to us; the exploitation of poor
people in 3rd world countries for corporate gain; it goes on and on.
You get my gist, I'm sure.
It's all about greed and profit, the long and the short of it. As long as
it's not profitable for you and me to consume whole, organic foods, unadulterated
by chemicals and irradiation ("pasteurization"), or to buy the supplements
you want in the dosages you want, rather than submitting to the imperative
of Western medical "health" "care," you are not going to be able to get what
you want and need easily. It's getting harder and harder by the year. This
is one of the reasons a lot of gringos are heading to places such as Costa
Rica on a permanent basis. And it's just going to keep on happening--our
freedoms, our health and well-being, what we have come to take for
granted here in this country--until people start waking up EN MASSE. This
is happening, but it needs to happen on a much grander scale.
Not only are the global corporations getting into "organics" for all the
wrong reasons, but they are co-opting and corrupting the very meaning of
organic, so that the product which reaches the consumer is no longer
organic by the definition s/he knows as organic. And it's not just the
"people in this country"--the corporate entity might be hydra-headed and
not be based solely in this country, but have offices all over the world.
It is a cancer that has metastasized. Frankly, I think it was depressing
enough to start with, even before 911 and before the food and supplement
thing started to get out of hand. But that could be because I've lived
overseas, during my formative years, and I got a chance to see what life
was like in a saner country and culture than our own, at an impressionable
age.
On a happier, note, we went to CR in February and there were tourists
but nothing that we couldn't deal with, at least at the volcano and in
the rainforest. The beach was not that pleasant an experience but that
was probably cuz we didn't care for the hotel where we stayed. I would
have preferred a place with fewer tourists there though. There were
probably other areas where we could have gone to where there were
fewer, but we were limited as to how much time we had to wander--we only
went for 12 days, including travel, not much time. Another beef I have
with life in the U.S., LOL! the short vacations we get here compared
to lots of other places. If you prefer a cooler climate, stay in the
higher, central part of the country rather than the lower and hot and
humid areas by the coast. I know what you mean about humidity--I don't
have what you have, but I have never been able to deal well with humidity.
In fact, I cannot tolerate variations in temperature, probably
a function of being hypothyroid all my life, either cold or heat. I can't
handle the cold at all, and try to avoid visiting my family on the East
Coast except for during the spring or summer. I'd go in fall, except my
work precludes me traveling at that time of the year, it's our busiest
time of the year.
Anyway, have a fabu trip--I don't know where Langosta is, but the meaning
is "lobster." It must be on the coast, I would think. Hope you get to
relax and enjoy, far away from the insanity and degeneracy of life in
the U.S.