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T-shirt ideas August 11, 2016

Earlier in the summer, I promised myself that, in honor of Alexander von Humboldt, I would write at least one blog post that would look at the big picture of Palo Verde and its surroundings and explore the connections between them. This is not that post. When I’m sitting in my hotel five minutes from the airport and have nothing more to worry about than what I want for dinner, I’ll write that post. In the meantime, I thought I’d share some ideas we’ve had for souvenir T-shirts over the years:

• “I donated blood to the mosquitoes of Palo Verde” (with a Red Cross symbol surmounted by a mosquito)
• “I was attacked by vampires at Palo Verde” (black with red writing, of course)
• “The Palo Verde militia” (with pictures of acacia ants, mosquitoes, and crocodiles) *

*Costa Rica is very proud of the fact that it hasn’t had a military since the 1940s, so there’s a common T-shirt illustrating their army of monkeys, air force of macaws, and navy of sea turtles. I think we should have a more local version.