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The Connected Traveler - Magazine, Blog & Podcast

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Note: This is a separate subscription from that of our standard web log and podcast. This subscription will automatically download videos in the same way podcasts are downloaded. As these are in Windows Media files they may not play on all devices.

Souvenirs: when you travel, you both take them and leave them. I think about this as I sit on my deck at home scraping Costa Rican mud off of my boots. Who knows what is in this stuff: maybe anteater scat, or some seeds dropped from the bill of a three-wattled bellbird that will plant themselves in my garden, thrive and perhaps (oh dear) eat my cat.

I took a hike through Costa Rica's Monteverde Cloud forest with Danilo Wallace, a park ranger born and raised in what is now one of the world's foremost rainforest preserves. He said that when he was a child he shot Toucans with a slingshot, cut off their bills and made necklaces. For his parents, the forest was a servant, from which they extracted building materials and food. That has changed. (MORE)