With days to go before we set off for Central America, decisions about packing have to be made. Dust off the bags from the attic, pull clothes out of the drawer, heap on bed and consider the options. As usual, there are issues with the weather. Wet, cold and windy in UK, warm and sunny in Texas, downright hot in Costa Rica and who knows what the weather will be doing in Chicago in the first week of March.
The first of these can fairly easily be dealt with, wear appropriate clothes in the UK and abandon fleeces and jumpers in the boot of the car at Heathrow. Houston should be fairly warm and anyway we are only there for 16 hours. Costa Rica should be easy, the temperature when I checked it a day or two ago was 32C in Liberia and 25C in Monteverde - sounds like shorts and t-shirts with a light fleece if it is cool in the evening. Then there is Chicago. Firstly, of course, it is known as 'Windy City' secondly it it situated on one of the Great Lakes, Lake Michegan, thirdly, in March the lake may well be still frozen as it is early spring. We will have almost 24 hours in the city and it would be good to have a quick visit into the city rather than vegetating in a hotel at Chicago O'Hare airport. I guess it will depend on what the weather is doing when we get there.
We have also done quite a bit of route planning for Costa Rica using the Yourtravelmap.com website. The planner seems pretty comprehensive, although one set of directions appears to head through an area where there are no roads marked on the map. Could be an interesting trip.
We have also acquired a bird identification guide which is probably invaluable as there are a huge number of tropical birds that call Costa Rica home. I wonder how many of them we will see.
Will we manage to do the sensible thing and cut down on the number of clothes we take? The more we travel, the more we realise we always take too much with us. Perhaps this time, we will move some of that heap on the bed and put it back in the drawer!
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