This fellow, who had not really paid any attention to me, said he’d take the monkey while I worked. So I decided to hand off the monkey so I could get my work done. But after a while I had to go get some work done. I took him and I was cuddling him and enjoying taking care of him. I thought this monkey was really cute and decided I would take care of it for the day. They brought the monkey back into the park to arrange to find a reserve where they could send this little monkey Most of the time he acted like I was annoying him when I sat down and tried to have not very good Spanish conversations (because my Spanish was poor).Īfter a couple days, the rangers found a Capuchin monkey in Quepos somebody had kept this monkey at their house, which is not allowed. He was doing interesting work with insects, collecting them and mounting them in these wooden boxes. In the next few days, I tried to get to know him. He had a motorcycle helmet under his arm. I spent a week in the park getting to know my way around it.Ībout a week in, this tall, very handsome man walked into the ranger park where we were having dinner, acting like he owned the place. The other took one look and left for the week. One elbowed the other saying, “look who’s coming”. I hiked into the park up to the ranger house, where apparently two park rangers saw me coming. I walked into the park with my big backpack on. M: I was planning on 3 weeks of volunteering at Manuel Antonio. So you got to Manuel Antonio - w hat happened from there? In the second park I landed in I wound up in Manuel Antonio – a really wonderful place for a love story…Ī: I’ve heard this story quite a few times. I decided I would volunteer in the national park system. I spoke a tiny bit of Spanish at that point. I got to Costa Rica after two months of traveling in Ecuador. I was thinking about where I would go and I opted for five months of traveling in Ecuador and then Costa Rica, since they were countries that were safe places for a young woman to travel alone. When I graduated college, a long, long, long time ago, I decided I was going to travel before going to grad school. M: I have the best Costa Rican love story in the history of Costa Rican love stories. Can you tell us about your relationship with Costa and why you might be an appropriate candidate for our Valentine’s Day episode at the Tico Times? I am also your mother.Ī: This is very exciting. I am a US history professor at Albion College in Michigan. Do you want to give me some background about who you are and what your relationship is to me?
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Listen to this story in our podcast, The Tico Times Dispatch, below. You can also listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play Music.Īlejandro: Ok so one more time. The follow was originally recorded as an interview between Tico Times reporter Alejandro Zúñiga and his mother, Marcy Sacks.