http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/LittleDave/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from LittleDave en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:54:37 BST Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:54:37 BST After leaving the wonderful festival city of Suchitoto it was off to the beach El Tunco. Nice and sunny with descent sized waves...too bad there were so many beginners out there me included making for dangerous times in the lineup. Sand and sun was blistering hot during the days with a 10 second time limit on the black sand that wasnt being cooled by the waves. After relaxing at the beac http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/El-Salvador/Juayua/blog-256822.html Arriving back in La Onion in the early morning hours of Friday the 8th. It was off to Suchitoto the step back in time the arts capitol of El Salvador where every weekend in February people in droves head out of the city to experience the musical performances from global musicians...NOT. Who writes this xxxx We arrived to deadness no signs of a festival except for a few posters around tow http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/El-Salvador/Suchitoto/blog-251735.html What is all that noise Who keeps trying to break in I finally bother to open my eyes to see Chris heading out the door. As it turns out Chris had food poisoning and had been to that decrepid bathroom next door to our room about 10 times throughout the night for the expulsion of the poison. At first it didn't look like Chris would be moving but by about 9am he felt well enough to give the http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/El-Salvador/blog-251724.html Leaving Jiquilillo it was a long day on the buses starting at 5am. Two buses to the Honduras border where we were told we could get an express mini bus straight through to El Salvador. Much like the bus me and Mike were told about that was just across the Bulgarian Turkish Border this bus didnt materialize either. It was one chicken bus to Choluteca and then another chicken bus tho El Amatil http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/El-Salvador/Perquin/blog-244946.html The second day in Jiquilillo me and Chris headed off down to the end of the road to search out a baseball game as it is supposed to be a big event. Asking a number of locals on the way one finally told us to get out here at what looked like an empty field. Why didnt we just stay on the bus. The game clearly was not on as the field was devoid of life except for a pig and a few chickens. Down http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/blog-244937.html Another day in Granada hanging with Casey and Darren discussing Casey's now true color patriots LOL oversome Flor de Caa and Toa and and it was on couple buses to Leon. An hour search for Chris's hostel and two more buses later roughly 10 hours and we were at the Hostel Rancho Esperanzo in the remote fishing village of Jiquilillo on Nicaragua's Northern Pacific shore. Not many tourists in t http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/blog-244619.html Got a ride to the Monkey Hut the Bearded Monkeys Hostel on the Laguna. Return trip was 3 and entrance was 6 although for another 4 you could spend the night. They keep the entrance fee at 6 simply to keep the chill atmosphere at the Hut. The lake is nice. Much like any lake in Manitoba or Ontario it's got fresh water with bad viz and surrounded by trees. The Hut has 3 kayaks one mis http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Laguna-de-Apoyo/blog-244610.html On Sunday I got off at Harlem and 125th again this time walking East eventually I hopped on the Subway for two stops to Rockerfeller Center where I looked for tickets to SNL. Good thing I didnt head there for the 6am free ticket call as the writers are on strike and no tickets to be had. Took me another 30 minutes just to locate a bathroom before heading off to Jackson Hole for some of the be http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Granada/Bearded-Monkey/blog-241226.html The Journey Begins 430 am and 2 hours of sleep I'm off to the airport. The first flight is full and I'm stuck in the middle seat. Suppose it didn't matter seeing as I slept through the flight anyway. The second leg from Minneapolis to New York for some reason was surprisngly empty. So upon walking to the back of the plane to my assigned seat which I insured was an aisle seat and noticing http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/blog-240232.html