A space usually frequented by middle-aged hikers relaxing after a day of photographing butterflies with oversized lenses, or 20-something backpackers drawn to Ometepe for the punishing volcano hikes, suddenly became one of the least organic experiences human nature can provide.
Those who struggled to finish the first day's hike suddenly took the lead.
"Hike!" Suddenly, as we pulled away, darting through a grove of birch trees, there was no sound except the wind.
"This [trigger] idea has caught on, and could greatly complicate the bill's path — and it surely would complicate long-term tax planning if a future tax hike suddenly becomes a possibility," Greg Valliere, chief global strategist at Horizon Investments, wrote in a note to clients.
First 12-mile days sufficed, then they went up to 16, then suddenly they were hiking 20 miles a day with ease, enjoying the first signs of spring thaw and the newfound hiking companions who began to show up on weekends.
Here, the newspaper appears to take President Barack Obama's administration to task for not believing something it never claimed to believe in the first place: That, within the remarkably short period of 24 months, decades of health insurance rate hikes would suddenly reverse themselves.
"That was 1972, and I got really lucky because that was the year of the oil-price hikes, and suddenly the OECD woke up to the threat to energy security, and renewable energy got off the ground in all kinds of important ways".
"One example relates to the fact that insurance premiums suddenly take a certain hike once an individual reaches the age of 70.
One day my family and I were out hiking when suddenly we turned a corner and we were in a herd of these creatures--perhaps 30 of them, babies and all.
You'll notice Obama doesn't expressly state that he opposes high gas prices but says he doesn't think cost hikes should happen suddenly or dramatically.
