Costa Rica is a GO.

Current rough itinerary

Nov 11 Arrive San Jose, transportation to Arenal Volcano area

Nov 11-13 Explore Arenal area -- Tabacon hot springs, continuously erupting volcano, jungle sky walks, lake Arenal, caves

Nov 14 Take jeep-boat-jeep transfer to Monteverde

Nov 14-15 Explore Monteverde -- cloud rainforest, night jungle walk, guided tours of areas dense with wildlife, museums

Nov 16 Go down to Puntarenas, take boat to Paquera

Nov 16-17 Explore Curu (lowland jungle, monkeys, mangrove swamp), sea kayaking, Tortuga island, beach, snorkeling etc

Nov 17 Return to San Jose

Nov 18 Fly out.

Dirty etymology

I was thinking about how the word "lechery" is similar to the Spanish word for milk, "leche". 

As it turns out, the origin of lechery was in the French word "lecher", which meant to lick.  I suppose it's not surprising that milk, licking, and wanton sexual desire all have a similar etymological origin. 

Also, I recently had a discussion about the word "nubile".  It turns out that it comes from the French word for marriageable, and that its first use in its modern context was in the 1970s.  It is not, as I had read earlier, derived from the Nubians, a culture in northern Sudan that had many interactions with the ancient Egyptians.