title: "If She Can Do It, So Can I!": Costa Rica Adventures: The inspirational tales of a woman who traded life in small town America for the lure of a tropical paradise.
author: Lisa Valencia
description: Lisa Valencia grew up living all over the United States. Her two children were born on the east coast. As a single mom,she brought her babies to the frontiers of Montana, where they lived for twenty years and Lisa worked as a mural artist and interior designer. When her children were grown, she took off to Costa Rica, discovered her talent for the written word, and has been writing about her adventures ever since. The stories are all true and the photos, original, taken by Lisa in Costa Rica.
zlib_text: _**White beaches and coral reefs should be adventure-proof...**_
  
  For archaeologist and TV show host Annja Creed, a restful vacation in Costa
  Rica is as elusive as a rare artifact. Days into her sojourn, Annja’s peace is
  interrupted by a woman with a mysterious—and enticing—tale. Weeks earlier, her
  husband led an expedition into the rain forest, in search of the lost treasure
  of Lima, and hadn’t returned. The priceless hoard was smuggled out of Peru
  during the country’s nineteenth-century revolt against Spain. But it
  disappeared when a ship captain went mad with greed.
  
  Twenty-six expeditions have gone after the treasure. And twenty-six
  expeditions have vanished.
  
  Sympathetic to the woman’s distress, Annja agrees to head up a rescue party
  for her missing husband. And Annja can’t deny her own interest in the lost
  hoard. Now the fates of two expeditions are at stake, along with a fortune in
  gold, silver and jewels rumoured to be exquisite. But the dense jungle of
  Cocos Island guards its 