Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 1929

Well, I'm staying in Tortuguero on the Caribbean coast for the weekend...well, this is my last night here...I'm staying at place called Turtle Beach Lodge, which is absolutely beautiful. I highly recommend it. Tortuguero is a tiny tiny town that can only be reached by boat or light plane, as it is surrounded by water: the caribbean sea on one side and lagoons and rivers on the other side. Turtle Beach Lodge is also only accessible by water. On one side of the property is the sea, and on the other side the lagoons. There's jungle tours here, kayaking, boat tours, garden tours, hiking tours on Tortuguero Mountain and night watch tours for turtles. That's the reason I really wanted to come here: the turtles. Tortuguero is the nesting grounds for over 3,000 green turtles, along ... read more

So after a lot of vegging out yesterday, doing nothing much more than watching "Anchorman", we decided to go to another soccer game. It was a local game between "Hispano" from Comayagua, and "Montagua" from where I am not sure. Jenna and I were the only ones to go, and decided to cheer for Hispano. While we were waiting in line to get tickets, the man on a loud speaker for "Diez" (kind of like ESPN down here) came over to us and asked who the "American Girls" were cheering for. Jenna understood what he asked in spanish so she answered then he came to me and I just scremed. lol... it was funny. Lots of more interesting things happened at this game. First off, we bought tickets that were 10 lempira more expensive, thinking it ... read more

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~Mark Twain Well, this will definitely be the last entry I make before the ship docks, for the last time, in sunny San Diego. I’m glad that I got to share this little thing with you. I can’t wait to share pictures and stories, too. It’s been a long stretch, but it hasn’t been as bad as I thought it would’ve been. We’ve had a lot of things to keep us busy. On the first August 11th, we had a charity auction. Passengers on the ship were able to donate things that everyone would ... read more

We’ve bought a truck! All the time spent weeding through trucks that weren’t exactly right for us, has finally paid off. Narrowing our search down helped as well as we had done additional research on the 4Runners, Landcruisers and Pathfinders. We found that the Landcruisers, while great to look at, had very bad gas mileage and had extremely poor emissions. Pathfinders faired better however their long term reliability wasn’t as good as the Toyotas. 4Runners however seemed to be exactly what we were looking for as they had decent gas mileage in the 4 cylinder, had excellent long term reliability ratings for certain years (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996+) and had the lowest emissions for an SUV 4X4. We were sold. We immediately started to look at only 4Runners and only those who had good years for ... read more

On Saturday night we met 2 young expat couples to go to a festival/carnival in the local town. On first glance it looked like any other carnival with some dangerous looking rides, overpriced “tchotchkes” and games that are impossible to win. After a few minutes we began to notice that a lot of the stands were selling masks that some of the kids and many of the drunks were wearing. We found out that these masked “marauders” actually run through the festival during the daily parades beating onlookers with pig-bladders that they inflate with either water or air. Today we drove through town 10 minutes before the parade, and had the opportunity to witness this amazing ritual… Unfortunately Rachel was already feeling sick, and I am afraid that out her over the edge. Not only does ... read more