Being the beach bums we are, there was just a little bit of excitement when we rolled up into San Juan del Sur. After a pretty painless bus ride down from Granada, we were baking in the sun in no time trying to find a place to crash, which wasn’t too difficult. It’s kind of nice being in small towns like this where everything is pretty close together so you don’t have to carry all your crap too far to scope out a few places to stay. The place we ended up at had free coffee and breakfast in the morning with some fairly comfortable beds in the dorms. It didn’t take us long to throw our stuff in the lockers and make our way to the beach in town. Unfortunately, it was nothing to write ... read more

As you can imagine, we were really looking forward to leaving Guatemala after the last few days, and all we could think about was being at the beach and sweating all day long. With that in mind, we were on the first shuttle to El Tunco in El Salvador with a friend we had met in school who had decided it was time to move on as well. Crossing into El Salvador may have been one the easiest border crossing we’ve ever done to date! We hardly had to do a thing, seriously. We didn’t even have to bring our big packs up to them to look over, they just let us right in (with no stamp L) with no questions asked. It was a pretty painless ride all the way to El Tunco. As soon ... read more

The day had finally arrived. We were about to start Spanish school, a very distant thought not long ago for us. In order to move to our new place, we got up nice and early so we could still make it to school on time. For breakfast, we bought a couple of chocolate muffins from the panderia (bakery) right around the corner. We probably shouldn’t have done that ‘cause they were so delicious you didn’t want to stop eating them. And we all know Nate has a serious weakness for chocolate! We made our way down the steep hill and over to our new home for 4 hours a day. When we got there, everyone was having coffee and tea while socializing with the rest of the students. When 8:00am rolled around, we were still asleep ... read more

It’s so hard to believe we’re already getting ready to pick a Spanish school. It seems like just yesterday Nate was eating bugs and Jessie was hanging on for dear life on a motorbike trip. We’ve met many people who tell us, “Wow! Two years? That’s a really long time.” We used to be like that. We used to think to ourselves, “How can people spend three years traveling and sometimes more?” Believe it or not, it goes by incredibly fast and the more you see, the more you WANT to see. We truly feel like you could spend an entire lifetime traveling and still not see everything there is to see. Keeping that in mind, we said goodbye to our new friends and packed into the already full shuttle that was making its way to ... read more

After our Christmas present of the Packers winning, we were setting off to Lanquin where we were thinking we would check out Semuc Champey and possibly a cave tour. We decided we might not want to press our luck to much with the chicken buses since we had heard about so many people being robbed on the open road and opted for a shuttle instead. Would be have been OK in the bus? Maybe, sure. Is it worth the risk for a couple of extra dollars? Not to us it isn’t, especially after we have already had to buy THREE cameras. As it was, we were already going to be getting in a bit late and without a reservation made. When we saw that there were 2 full shuttles heading there that day, we were immediately ... read more