April 20 – 21, 2018
We drove through the hills of Costa Rica towards Monteverde. The area has a high population of Quakers. Apparently a group of Quakers had been jailed in the US for refusing to fight in the Korean war. When they were freed, they started looking for a new place to live. They considered Canada, among a number of other countries, and finally decided on Costa Rica, partly due to the fact that Costa Rica had abolished it’s own army in 1948. The Quakers began cultivating the land and started dairy farms, but also wisely put aside a section of land for conservation. That land, today, is the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Preserve.