I’m trying to convince my best friend to go to Costa Rica with me next summer. I’ve never been to Central America. I would love to see rainforests. Mostly I’m interested in beaches. Glorious, glorious beaches! Costa Rica would be somewhere cheap, and not too far away so I wouldn’t have to deal with jet lag taking like two days away from my trip. I could take just a week off work and go and still feel like I’d seen something.