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I had to wake up at 4:30am to ride a cab to the San Jose airport in Costa Rica. It was quite a busy airport that early in the morning but I arrived just early enough to make all the necessary checkouts and fly back to the USA.
I [...]
The rain came to Bocas del Toro, pounding hard and relentless. I knew it was time to travel, I just wasn’t quite sure where. I felt like I should be heading toward Panama City but I didn’t quite have a real grasp on the distance and the suffering involved in completing the journey there.
I got on [...]
I strolled up to a nice hostel a couple blocks up the hill from town and happened into a group of guys shooting a bow and arrow across the road. I turned around and saw this nice secluded hostel behind me. I entered to meet Tamarindo Tony, the young urban entrepreneur who had the [...]
When you need to take a break from the monotony of 4 days of hard core Spanish word absorption, there are a couple options available to loosen a fella up. First there is the Gran Sultana train. This rig may have been customized to appear to be an actual train.., but they weren’t foolin me. [...]
Sometimes you will just be walking down the street, which is like a labyrinth with 16 foot fortress like walls on either side. Every sound echoing at incredible distances. You will come to a corner and be bombarded by an amazing drumline. A bass and snare drum rip an machine gun beat and you can [...]
So I have been trying to cram my brain with Spanish phrases and words lately.. I feel like I am coming along pretty well. I like to relax in the central park on a bench in the shade and go over the flash cards. There are quite a few characters that like to stop by [...]
I took a little trip down the coast to see the amazing horshoe bay at San Juan Del Sur. It is quite the place. I had the wonderful luxury of traveling behind this truck with a little bit of emissions situation. I believe that a coal burning power plant in the US has less emissions [...]
Granada was getting a little busy after a couple days. I was thinking of going off to the beach for a bit of fishing. I also wanted to get a little distance between me and the French hotel I was staying at. I noticed that DVD’s were available to watch on your computer at no [...]
Just for the record Managua and Granada are totally different cities. Managua has a lot of sweet monuments, but tragically lost its city center due to a major earthquake that rocked this place a while back. Granada capitalized on the devastation of Managua and took over as the gringo tourism center of Nicarauga.
These little [...]
After an intense excursion by sea and my mood poisoned by thoughts of my phone never waking up again, I decided to skip town. Or skip country more appropriately. I headed over to Honduras for a bit.
The border crossing was a little easier than the Guatemalan disaster. At first there was a little confusion [...]
