Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 8

JOHNNY'S JOURNEYS: CARIBBEAN CRUISE 2017 January 14, 2017 (Saturday) I got 200 minutes of sleep last night as we get up before 4 a.m. Bethany drove us to the Mobile, AL airport. Check-in via pre-clearance went smoothly. Our Delta flight was delayed about half an hour, so we flew out at 7:05. I had a chance to chat with my pharmacy fraternity brother, Dan, and his wife. There is a two hour layover in Atlanta. There was time to talk to Ralph and Becky and Mike before eating a delicious (and huge) Danish pastry. And I got a hot Earl Grey tea for Janet. The flight from Atlanta left on time, 11:30. After getting settled in, lunch was served. My Tapas box offered: multi-grain crackers, hummus, dipin quinoa, super seed crackers, harvest snap peas, almonds, a ... read more

We just had to visit "the city of coffee" When we studied our guidebook in the weeks before going on this trip we noticed that the city Yauco referred to themselves as the city of coffee. Considering how much coffee we drink we thought that we had better go there and at least have one cup of coffee each. The guidebook also mentioned that throughout the city there is plenty of street art. Since we also like street art we were hoping that the combination of two things we enjoy could make Yauco a place worth a short visit. It turned out that it was better than we expected. You may accuse us of being silly now but we have actually dedicated an entire blog entry to Yauco. Coffee Growing coffee has throughout the history been ... read more

I cry not for you and not for myself, I cry for the helplessness of mortals who live on the sufferance of life. In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. This is my second trip to Cuba. There are many different lenses you can see through when considering to visit Cuba. My cursiosity is to see how a communist/socialist life is actually lived. In North America we hear very little, if any, about Cuba or it's people. Us Americans are so busy and kept engaged with the domestic political masquerade that it does not leave us any time of interest to know whats going on in the rest of 98.3% of the globe (United States covers 1.87% of the earth). For ... read more

Roatan is an island off the Northern coast of Honduras. It is tiny and nothing much happens here except for the arrival of cruise ships, which apart from fishing is the main industry of the island. The people are a mixture of Spanish descent and African Caribbean, some of whom have come over from Jamaica and others from other islands in the East. The main language is English and also a version of Spanish which sounds nothing like Spanish!. The kids have to get up really early to walk to school and families on the whole tend to be quite large, which is not surprising as there is really no entertainment on the island! We were driven in a tiny bus out to a nature reserve looking after green iguanas, which are really quite cute. You ... read more

For this excursion we actually went directly through Carnival. Some of us decided on cave tubing and others chose snorkeling so the group will be split up today. We went through Carnival this time because on all the excursions you have to travel away from the port and if you book from Carnival and the tour is late the ship will have to wait for you. This is a tendered port but since we booked directly through Carnival we did not have to get a ticket to get off. Our time to report to the auditorium was 7:30am. That was an early wake up time! We all ate breakfast and arrived on time. Can’t say we were all in the best moods but we made it and we were ready for an adventure. Roatan and Belize ... read more