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The Traveling Hams - Lara and Jason Hamwey

This travel diary marks our first anniversary and off we go on our second honeymoon (10/20/07) to Costa Rica. We are avid travelers and have a list that could wrap around the world with the number of places we want to go. We hope that for those of our friends who have not been to our upcoming destinations that our travel diary will help you to visit to, or maybe even inspire a vacation. For those who been to our destinations before we hope it reminds you of your own happy adventures.

So off we go again on another adventure. We had such positive feedback from our honeymoon journals that we just had to do this again. If you just get the notion to go away after reading our entries then our job will be done, there are so many amazing places to visit both in our own countries and on other continents, life is too short not to keep checking out new stuff.

Enjoy and we look forward to sharing our memories with you.

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By The Traveling Hams
October 17th 2009

Keeping Austin Wierd - Hamwey Style North America » United States » Texas » Austin

Farmers Marter Stand

Here is Austin there is a movement of locals who appreciate and support "Keeping Austin Wierd" where they love this unique identity. Our second day in Austin was a good experience of that as went about our planned activities but went off the beaten path....literally....and saw some really interesting and hilarious things. We started out the day by heading to the Sunset Valley Farmers Market. Over on the western side of Austin close to the Hill Country you see more of the industrial/rural side of Austin. After a few missed turns we found a giant football stadium apparenlty for high school [View Full Entry]

By The Traveling Hams
October 16th 2009

Taco and a Cupcake - can it get any better? North America » United States » Texas » Austin

Photo says it all

We landed in Austin just in time for dinner. So off in search of the South Austin Trailer Park and Eatery which was reported to have amazing tacos by a local owner who has three locations all called Torchys. I don know if it was fate but we somehow in trying to get to the Trailer Park location ended up at one of their other locations and it was the perfect place for us to stop. Not just because the tacos were awesome (more on that later) but because the staff got excited over having Austin virgins in their midsts, after [View Full Entry]

By The Traveling Hams
October 25th 2007

look over our blog Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

If you can look over all the entries we just were able to upload a lot more photos, when we get back we are going to do a big upload to one ofthe photo sites but this gives youan idea of what we are seeing, two more days to go. love to everyone, lara [View Full Entry]

By The Traveling Hams
October 24th 2007

HORSES AND SERENITY Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » San Ramon

jay riding

Today, Wed, we went horseback riding on the president’s farm, rolling bright green hills, with amazing vistas with views that went on for miles. The terrain got muddy and mucky at points but these horses were true troopers and gave us a great trip. We were really proud of Adam who had never ridden a horse before and didn’t fall off once! Poor Elena got some bites from horse flies/fleas so her leg looks a little gross but we got her taken care of quickly with allergy medicine and balm to take away the itching. It was a lot of fun [View Full Entry]

By The Traveling Hams
October 23rd 2007

Don't feed the monkeys - - Yeah Right! Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Quepos

monkey jumping

So last night I was on our balcony and i was like ho-hum guess no monkeys for me, I was relaly hoping I would get one on our balcony. Even last night both Jay and I woke up once each in the middle of the night to peak on a banan we had left out. Then at about 5.30 I wa sup and couldn't sleep anymore and I looked outside and there was an amazing sunrise so I opened the door and there it was a monkey in the tree across from us, it was a mono titi, an andangered monkey [View Full Entry]

By The Traveling Hams
October 23rd 2007

Zip on the Zip Lining but SI! on the great deals Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Quepos

Hammock sleeping

Well unfortuantely we never got to Zip line today - we got to the site, paid and THEN they brought up a concern wiht the harnesses and Jay and would they fit him properly, so we pretty much wasted a day to find out they did not have the right harness for him and it would of been a risk for him to be in a suspension harness with not a lot of room for slipping.....we were pretty pissed since I had contacted the company "Canopy Titi" asked about any restrictions and was told since the cables are designed to hold [View Full Entry]

By The Traveling Hams
October 23rd 2007

visitng villa vanilla and another hair rasiing driving experience Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Quepos

green peppercorns

Thanks to the monkey visit on Tuesday which started at 5.30am and lasted till about 7am, Tuesday was a looong day. We checked out of the hotel at 8.30 since the power had been shut off at 8am so there was no point in hanging around and we drove to a local spice farm called Villa Vanilla. With not knowing what to expect, combined with getting a personal tour from the owner of the farm we had an amazing time. Henry was originally from Chicago, who had come to CR 30 years ago with the Peace Corp and stayed. About 21 [View Full Entry]

By The Traveling Hams
October 22nd 2007

Day - Very Hairy Scary Driving 1 Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » San José

It is so hard to start this first entry because yesterday when we landed I had a thousand things in my mind to tell everyone about and now I feel my words will only be a shadow of the descriptions I was writing in my head as we headed to Quepos. I think I could of flown in, seen the terrain and got on a plane and left immediately - not because I was deterred from what I saw but because it was so beautiful that I could not imagine seeing anything better. I have visited a lot of places in [View Full Entry]

By The Traveling Hams
October 21st 2007

Monkey See Monke Do Monkey in Photos Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Quepos

Hotel

A monkey was on our balcony today……and WE WERE NOT HERE! How do I know? Because I left a banana on the ledge and for the two hours that we went out for lunch we came back and found a banana peel on the floor - how do you like that, eat and leave trash behind! Oh well I am hopeful that the new banana I put out will secure me an up close encounter with a monkey. We did go to Manuel Antonio Park today, we hired a tour guide who without we would never of spotted three different varieties [View Full Entry]

By The Traveling Hams
October 12th 2007

On our Way to Costa Rica North America » United States » Florida » Miami

OKay folks, We are about to go on a dream vacation again. Just thought we would warn you that travel diaries will "hopefully" be heading your way again. This time we are really not sure how much internet access we are going to get but we sure hope it is going to be alot! We are giddy at the thought of the amaxing photos we are going to get this time. From rain forests, cloud forests, national parks, beaches, surf sites and more, Costa Rica is going to be a treasure chest of sights and experiences. We fly from Fort Lauderdale [View Full Entry]

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