WanderingWhy…

Some of you may have read my post on the volcano hike in Ometepe Nicaragua. I had to do a little legwork to organize that hike and met a few guys from the US that were interested in going (a group rate is always cheaper–and more fun).
Rick and Steve were two brothers interested in [...]

“Shit out… Out… OUT!” came the voice of my Italian instructor over the walkie-talkie. No, I was not being coached through a bowel movement. This was the last thing I heard before being forcefully dragged face first through the water. Breaking the surface, choking and blinded by salt water, the next thing I [...]

Today we began our journey from the northern part of Costa Rica to a town south of San Jose called San Marcos. Look how light we are traveling!

We began our trip at 6am on the chicken bus out of Bahia Salinas. There was nowhere to sit, so I [...]

Today we made our first border crossing. Now there are a few ways to cross the border from Nicaragua into Costa Rica. You can take a TransNica or Tica bus which is like a Greyhound bus. They will stamp your passports for you, walk you through the process, and take you across [...]

So it may seem that Sean and I have been missing for a while. Internet access has been harder to find in the last week or so.

We left San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua last Wednesday. I wanted to take a moment to try to sum up Nicaragua. How [...]

We went to San Juan Del Sur with pretty much one thing in mind: The chance to see the sea turtles lay their eggs. As we made our way south through Nicaragua we met several travelers that had gone to see the turtles north of SJdS. One Canadian couple went in the start [...]

Because it is there? No, because Sean is a moron. Let me say that the Maderas Volcano looks and feels much better from the beach with a beer then trying to get to the top. I was completely sold on the idea of a hike into the rim of a volcano with [...]

The past week we have been in Ometepe, which is the largest island in the largest lake in the world. There are 35,000 people that call the island home. It is a very cool island with two volcanoes. There once was one volcano on each side but the lava eventually connected them [...]

We are still in Laguna de Apoyo. We just can’t seem to leave! It is so beautiful here, we have just kept adding nights to our stay. The hostel we are staying at, Crater’s Edge, has free kayaks. So we have been kayaking daily in the lake, which is funny because [...]

I am finding the hardest part of our trip so far is learning how to relax. Everyone who knows me knows that I have a hard time doing that anyway. On the way to the airport, my watch broke, and we did not have time to get a new band. Subsequently it [...]