Here are some stupid unrelated observations and rants I’ve had while traveling in Latin America (don’t take any of this too seriously): The queue is a figment of the North American imagination… or perhaps gringos are invisible due to our blinding white skin. I swear I’ve never been in a line that a local hasn’t [...]
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 [...]
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 the border. You [...]
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 do you describe a country? [...]
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 of the [...]
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 a lake in [...]
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 into one island. [...]
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 we have kayaks at [...]
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 is in the [...]
Here we are camped out in Granada Nicaragua! Geography lesson number one learned: Granada is not the same place as Grenada (which is what Dawn put on our customs form). We are staying at the Oasis Hostel which is really nice although our room is a bit small. This is the room–all of it. That [...]
