… By Five o’clock I intend to close this computer and not open it again until the 8th of February. Jill and I are going on the first real vacation we have had in twelve years. We travel separately quite a bit: I’m off doing a reading or teaching or looking at parts of the Great Plains for a book, Jill is cooking somewhere. We travel together too, but it has always been in conjunction with some event, some sort of work. This time it is a real vacation, just the two of us. We are off to a place that both of us have always wanted to see – Costa Rica.