This is one of my favorite photos from Costa Rica. This was taken from the ferry ride across Lake Arenal. I just thought it was one of the most dramatic-looking landscapes and looked so other-worldly, not to mention beautiful. In fact, during the whole journey from La Fortuna to Monteverde it really struck me that we were in the middle of nowhere. It was one of those moments where I felt that I had somehow dropped off the face of the earth. No one in the world knew where I was, I could have slipped away from existence so easily, and in fact that's how it really felt: that I had momentarily ceased to exist. It was a feeling that wasn't scary or strange, but kind of cool, like it was natural for that time and place.