The ride from Semuc Champey was an adventure in itself! A collectivo, a vehicle about the size of a large van, is a main source of transportation in Guatemala. With 21 people crammed into it, we started our trip to Xela. The driver could serioulsy enter the Indy 5oo the way he was racing down the windy, bumpy roads, taking corners so fast that the tires were screeching. Even the locals on the collectivo seemed a bit nervous at is driving. The driver must have sensed his passengers apprehensivenss as he turned up the bass in the music to mask the [View Full Entry]

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45 Surgeries and 89 appointments today [View Full Entry]

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Surgery Day [View Full Entry]

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World Vets Travel Blog - Wednesday, Sept 10, 2008 Roatan Honduras Day “Minus” One” I usually start with day one, but since this trip started out as such a “nail bitter”, I thought I might include a little of the pre-trip drama. The World Vets Roatan Team will be heading to Honduras. Our goal is to spay/neuter over 300 animals. We will also be vaccinating and treating as many animals as we can during this one week project. For months World Vets has been coordinating efforts with local Roatan volunteers to launch this project. 6 veterinarians and 5 assist [View Full Entry]

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Honduras After school, I never thought I´d spend 7 hours on a school bus. But that is how we got from Belize City to Punta Gorda. They squish as many people as they can on the buses and thru the aisles and make stops wherever someone wants to be picked up. You rotate from knees on the seat in front of you squashed down a bit to head on the seat in front of you to sitting up straight...every 10 minutes or so. It seemed extra hot that day. We finally arrived in Punta Gorda just before sunset, slept there and [View Full Entry]

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From the coastal town of La Ceiba, Honduras, I caught a $50 ferry over to the Island of Roatan, one of the famous Bay Islands. I traveled over with a new friend from NY, another solo female traveler coming from two months volunteering in El Salvador. We stepped off the ferry and stuck out our thumbs, aiming to catch a ride to the backpacker-tourist side of the island. Five pickup trucks later we arrived in West End (free transport was much better and more interesting than the $20 taxi service offered at the ferry dock). We ended up walking a [View Full Entry]

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8 Times going back to the little island of Utila and it still gets better every time. Mostly because we had a great group of guys that gave it all we had for a hell of a week that seemed like an eternity. Usually I remember vacations going by fast but we jam packed so much in to everyday I think we tricked our brains into thinking we were there a lot longer then we were. That just means I can lay low for a few weeks in Rochester. Not like there’s anything that comes close to these traveling experiences anyways. [View Full Entry]

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Hola Everyone! David here. Time is really flying but our travels remain full of fun, challenges and many amazing experiences and despite some growing home sickness and missing our families and friends, we're both in good shape. In this instalment of our travel blog I'll provide a taste of our adventures to, and on, both the Corn and the Bay Islands. I'll start with the CORN ISLANDS which are essentially two small islands (Big Corn & Little Corn) 70km off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, originally used as a safe haven for pirates when they still plundered the Caribbean. The Corns [View Full Entry]

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After a harrowing day of four buses and hundreds of miles we arrived in the coastal city of La Ceiba, in the north east of Honduras. It was just a stop over however on our voyage to the Bay Islands where we were to indulge ourselves in yet more world class diving. Unfortunately the majority of the first day was spent bumming around La Ceiba as the doofuss in our hostel told us the wrong ferry times but nonetheless we arrived on Utila later that afternoon. Utila, the smallest of the three islands was inhabited first by Mayans, then spanish and [View Full Entry]

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What an exhausting and fulfilling week! Let´s start off by saying that Utila is awesome! A little background first, Utila was discovered by Captain Morgan and is where he found Blackbeards treasure and it went on to become the biggest pirate colony in the world. Need I say more? Utila is basically a dive town, and Bryan did his advanced open water courses while there. I was 100% sure I was not going to dive because I was terrified, but every single person I met talked me into it and I decided to go for it. Utila is the cheapest place [View Full Entry]

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