Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 1926

Sorry for anyone who is still checking this! I've found there is not enough time to both live and write... I have a powerpoint of pictures and our summer if anyone wants to see them when we get back!... read more

For those of you following our adventures with Hurricane John, I have added in some pictures and video. As you will see the folks in Mexico were well prepared for the Hurricane and cared for their tourists extremely well. We were in no danger and in fact had enjoyed such an outstanding holiday prior to the Hurricane that the forced rest time in the hotel was quite enjoyable. Aug. 25 started with a flight to LA before continuing on to Cabo San Lucas the next day. Unfortunately, my luggage was so enamored by LAX that it took an extra day there kanoodling with all of the other foreign baggage. It chose to catch up with us in Cabo a couple of days later. The rest of the family had properly trained their bags to return to ... read more

Last night Rachel complained that the toilet in the master bedroom wouldn’t stop running. So, figuring it was a quick-fix, I opened the top just as the tank was about to overflow. So I flushed the water down and started trying to figure out why the float wouldn’t turn off the flow of water. While working on the problem, the toilet started to overflow again, so I figured that I would just turn it off at the wall, preferring to work on it in the morning. As soon as I turned the shutoff valve, something let go inside the valve and waster started to gush from the shutoff valve! I just love Costa Rican craftsmanship… So, with toilet-water ankle deep in the bathroom, I ran to the basement and luckily found a new float setup for ... read more

Ok, we're not in Curacao as the header says, we're actually in Bonaire which isn't listed on this thing.....but Curacao is only just across the water! So, it's been an eventful four days and lots of fun. Started out at 4am at Heathrow, where we queued for an hour at check-in, followed by over an hour at security. Lorna got the opportunity to strike a pose after looking dodgy enough to be asked to be a guinea pig for the new body scanning machine. Thankfully, this meant that she got to jump the queue and had time to buy fluids and food for the journey (you know how we both like our food!) The flight was delayed on the runway for an hour, but we still got to Amsterdam in loads of time. Next flight was ... read more

today i am relaxing. i just spent two hours on the beach...reading, swimming, listening to my IPOD, watching the birds, listening to the howler monkeys and just chilling. my knees are a little sore today from yesterdays climb up volcan maderas. it took us 7 hours, round trip, to climb the volcano. johan and i started at 11:30 and the weather at the bottom of the volcano was hot and humid. but as we ascended it started to rain and become cool. it was the most difficult volcano ascension experience that i have had so far, mostly because the water was running down the mountain making the clay and stones slippery. the trail up the volcano was pretty cool....narrow and all natural. there were no man made stairs or paved paths. the terrain changed as we ... read more