Caly and I stopped off at the beach for a (partly)business meeting at sunset. Gotta love doing business with a rum and coke, beautiful sunset, on the beach. It gets worse than this.

The sunset was lovely, but not particularly notable for Tamarindo. What was notable was the crowd. Late February isn't usually a top tourist season, but the beach was on the verge of too-crowded last night. I was pleasantly surprised. Sorta. I've got a love-hate relationship with tourists. On the one hand, they are the life-blood of Tamarindo's economy and therefore a good thing to have around. On the other hand, tourists everywhere tend to be annoying. Loud, confused, they drive like morons, and frequently overlook the fact that everyone else is not necessarily on vacation. I lump myself into this description when I'm in some new and fascinating location- it isn't that the people are bad, it is just that tourism seems to incapacitate some vital part of our brains, rendering normal folks into completely different people.

All things considered, the economic benefits outweigh the inconveniences.

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