In post #2526, I wrote that our projected trip to Greece has been postponed until 2022, but that Lizzie and I have travel credits that have to be used by the end of this year. Just for fun, let's recap how we got here.
In 2019, Lizzie and I put down a deposit for a creativity retreat in the south of France. The travel date was September 2020. The retreat is being done through a travel agent in Europe who works with the artist directing the retreat. Lizzie and I decided to contact our travel agent, the indispensable Candice, to book our flights and add a couple of days in Paris. I was tres excited! I even started learning French!
The pandemic came along in March 2020. Around May or so, it became clear that nobody was going anywhere. The creativity retreat was pushed back to May 2021. Fortunately, the vendor Candice was booking through was also willing to push back the Paris plans to May 2021.
At some point, it became clear we weren't going anywhere in May 2021, and the creativity retreat was pushed back again, to October 2021, but with a change of location. Instead of the French Riveria, we would now be going to the island of Crete off the coast of Greece. Lizzie and I were willing to roll with that, and contacted Candice about changing the plans for Paris to plans for Athens.
Pretty quickly after that, the creativity retreat was pushed back to October 2022, just to be on the safe side. Okay, I'm kinda sorta still interested in going to Crete, but dang - October 2022 seems like a long ways away.
In the meantime, Candice tells us that we have to use the credit for what would have been Paris/Athens by the end of this year. So, as I wrote in post #2526, Lizzie and I decided to come up with five options of places we'd like to go. Lizzie did a much better job than I did about finding out what places were available through the tour operator that Candice is using. I just came up with five places I thought would be fun. There was one place that was on both of our lists: Costa Rica.
Now we are in contact with Candice about planning a trip to Costa Rica in October. We tentatively have a few days planned in the rainforest and a few days at a beach resort. I'd like to see a sloth. Lizzie wants to go zip-lining. We both want to try Costa Rican coffee, sit in thermal hot springs, and lounge by a pool sipping cocktails while reading and relaxing.
More on this adventure to come...
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