Hello again, Well I am sending this as my final blog. Our trip was fantastic. It didn't last long enough. Now that I am back in Gainesville I am going to work for awhile before continuing onward to far and distant lands. Thanks for tuning in. For those about to rock, Chad [View Full Entry]

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Today is my last day in San Cristobal. The week here has been one of the most enjoyable yet. Last thursday we were on our way back to the hostel after a Zapatista protest and decided to have a couple a beers the Revolution bar. As it turned out a authentic indigenous folk band was setting up to perform. There were seven guitar players a violinist and one percussionist. Their songs were very rhythmic. Each song had a verse and chorse that would repeat over and over. As the song went on each member would take a turn singing chorus. There [View Full Entry]

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Hello out there, Well we made it to San Cristobal de las casas. After a ten hour bus ride through the Guatemalan Mountains we passed the Mexican border without trouble. Mexico definitely has a different pace of life. This city has a modern culture behind its 17th century Colonial archetecture. The streets are crowded with teens wearing Iron Maiden t-shirts and Von Dutch Caps with Puma sneakers. Actually Puma shoes are the most popular shoes in all Central America! Yesterday we went to the Nabolom Museam/Hotel. The famous painter Frida Kahlo stayed in one of the rooms at the hotel. The [View Full Entry]

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I am having trouble posting these photos to my gallery so I decided to post them to this blog. Enjoy [View Full Entry]

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Hola Hola, The past two weeks have been very exiting! Mostly becuase of our stay in Utila, Honduras which is a large island in the Carrebean Sea and one of the many Bay Islands. We stayed at Oasis hotel. There we had a large swimming pool and a nice tiki bar. Our first night we went to a whale shark presentation. We learned alot about the shark. It grows to an average of 16 meters. Its mouth is as wide as a coffee table. It is identified by the spots around its face. It is not dangerous to swim with and [View Full Entry]

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After leaving Granada we took a bus two hours to Managua which is a much bigger city and very modern. As we pulled up to our hostel a man quickly helped us with our bags and rushed us within the hostel gates. We checked into a very small room with a tv and were told not to go out of the gates because it is very dangerous and ¨they¨ will put a knife to your throat and rob you. The sun was setting and we had about an hour of sunlight left so we decided to get dinner before dark. The [View Full Entry]

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A four hour boat ride took us to the island of Ometepe. The sun was setting as we approached and volanco Concepsion was in full view with smoke steaming from its crater. Ometepe is a very large island centered in the world's largest freshwater lake. It was formed by two volcanos named Maderas and Concepsion. Twenty years ago there were thousands of Bull sharks inhabiting its waters. They were able to enter through a lake connected to the ocean. As man would have it the sharks were eliminated from the lake with ten years. Thats ok because now it's safe for [View Full Entry]

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Greetings, Getting to Leon from Tegucegalpa was a bit of risk. We decided to leave on Good Thursday when only a few buses were running. The challenge was to cross the Honduran border into Nicaragua and bus our way to Leon before Semana Santa weekend. This was a fateful leap because we had to make seven bus transfers before arriving in Leon. Our first ride was in an old school bus which was over crowded with passengers. Along the way we were stopped about four times by the highway patrol. Theywere enforcing a new law which requires each passenger to have [View Full Entry]

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I would certainly be dead from dehydration if drums were water. I feel like a junkie in a hospital. I can't wait to get back on the drum set and play to the setting sun. Distance can make the heart grow fonder and in my case it has caused musical withdrawl. Hello to all that read this blog. I am writing from Tegucigalpa which is the capitol city of Honduras. The city exists in a large mountainous valley and seems to have expanded well beyond its capacity. The streets have no linear direction and as we were taxied to our hotel [View Full Entry]

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My friends, Today Travis and I roamed the Ruinas de Copan. This site had the very best stellae carving of all the sites so far. It is a pretty small complex in comprison to Tikal. We saw the steps carved with the history of the sixteen kings. They were really cool because there are literally thousands of steps, each carved with a different symbol representing the king of that time, the calander, and significant events of each period. Most of the kings reigned around the late BC's and the early AD's until around 700 AD. This city has a pyramid that [View Full Entry]

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