Finally: More than 150 pictures from our recent week-long trip to Costa Rica have been posted. Costa Rica is a beautiful country, and you’ll catch a glimpse of that from the pictures. The country is home to 5 percent of the world’s biodiversity, has 8 active vulcanoes, and is very peaceful. Something that’s hard to come by these days….

One of the benefits of the Sueno Azul Resort was the total media blackout - no TV, no radio, no newspapers, cellphones and internet. We left NYC with SARS and Iraq going on, only to reemerge 10 days later to a somewhat different world. But I’ll post my musings on this topic later. At any rate, we spend the week sleeping and eating, only interrupted by two yoga classes a day, swimming in the river, horseback riding to waterfalls, watching butterfly gardens and trekking through the rain forest. No wonder that we felt tired. Go see the pictures…