Our super special adventure comes to a close, as we spend our last day together here in Roatan. Today the group got certified in there open water diving, and Bobby and Karen received there advanced scuba diving certification. As were all spending the day doing some last dives, and writing our goodbye letters to each, our I AM poems or flows, evaluations were all a little sad to be leaving… Read More
After getting up at nearly 230am to catch our flights, we are finally here in the island of Roatan. An island only about 40 miles long, and mostly English speaking. A little bit different for us, seeming we have been traveling in central America where the most common language is Spanish. so walking in the grocery store, and speaking Spanish with an English reply is a little different for us.… Read More
If you were born with a tail, what kind of tail would it be? This question was tossed around amongest our group at the breakfast table this morning. In years past I had considered this question and decided I would like to have a big, bushy, red, fox tail. I feel it would be very suiting on me. It was decided that Alex would have the tail of a lion,… Read More
Where I last left off our group was preparing for our final shift at Playa Longosta. We´ve done much traveling since then and we have experienced and seen some wild things. First off was our final shift working with the turtles. We had to rise at 4:30a.m the next morning to leave for San Jose, so we were able to all do the same shift from 7 to 11:30. We… Read More
After leaving the island of Ometepe we once again awoke well before sunrise in order to make the journey to Costa Rica in time for dinner at our new home in Playa Longosta for Proyecto Baula. Surprisingly Crossing the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica went smoother than expected. With our passports freshly stamped we were ready to venture into a new paradise known as Costa Rica. We soon experienced… Read More
After saying goodbye to San Juan the beach and our new friend Tyler, who has been accommodating us, we made our way over to the island of Ometepe. The island is on the biggest lake in Central America. With its water covering 8,264 sq km makes it the 21st largest lake in the world . ITS BIG! We arrived to the island by a hour long ferry boat trip, then… Read More
All has been and is still going really well in San Juan. Our time is being spent eating, building solar paneled water heaters, surfing, playing games and just having a fun relaxing time. The past three nights some of us have witnessed the most beautiful breath taking sun sets with the sun seeming to melt into the sea. Some have watched from a bobbing board in the waves of the… Read More
Since our last post a lot has changed, but before I tell you about the present I should talk about how we finished off in San Marcos and what has happened. Our last day 4 of us (Dan, Bobby, Max and I) decided to doing some exploring and ventured off up into the Mountains behind San Marcos and found a gorgeous waterfall. That night we celebrated halloween. With all of… Read More
Hola amigos y familiaWe are writing from the San Marcos on the beautiful Lake Atitlan. After saying our goodbyes to Xela and all of our new acquaintances we headed off for our 3 day 28 mile trek to Lake Atitlan. On Saturday we all met at 6am with bags packed as light as we could and only what we needed for the trek. We headed off for our first day,… Read More
Friends, family, countrymen, lend me your ears. We write to you during our last precious week in the lovely city of Xela, more formerly known as Quetzaltenango. Since its been a little over two weeks since our last update, fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a semi lengthy account of our ongoings thus far. Arriving in Xela on a Monday, our first days of class were on a Tuesday. The… Read More
just so you know who is who….(from left to right)Dan, Bobby, Celia, Heidi, Karen, Alex, Max, Andy, and Kaise (pronounced like kai-eees like pie)… Read More
Because of popular demand, mainly my dad, we have a photobucket account for your viewing pleasure.
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lovebobby… Read More
Carpe Diem is the name of our group.Crammin 25 in a 14 seater, as if were in a coop.Going nation to nation,on the road agin to a fresh destination.Bags packed, domes in tacked, onwards in our adventure yo, no hesitation.Were naturally nomatic,scratch that flomatic, no static, on the road wreaking havoc.Back at it cause were a traveling addict.Just left Jam bamboo, all night long played teh drums with you.Were one… Read More
After reading this blog families, friends, and loved ones will understand why it has been such a long time since our last post. Today is our first full day in the lovely metropolis of Quetzaltenango aka Xela, but before i delve too much into our current activities let me inform you all of what our group has been doing the past several days. The last post we shared that we… Read More
We are wrapping it up here in San Andres, spending some time with our families and preparing some thankyou gifts. We have been emmersed into some of the historical Myan beliefs of San Andres, including a visit to a Curandera(a shamanistic herbal healer.)At the Curandera we learned about some of the common sicknesses amongest children and ways of healing them. One of the illnesses is caused from the transfer of… Read More
Its our third day at our second homestay, in San Andres. We apologize for the lack of blogs thus far. We thourghly enjoiyed ourselves in Poptuon and were fortunate enough to have participated in the local Guatemalan Independence Day festivities. These festivities included, sack races, music, a compatition with horses and a scramble up a 30 foot tall, lard covered log. Alex and Robert were champs and participated in the… Read More
Having met the group after months of only knowing them over the internet has made this whole journey become real. It started as we sat in a circle on the ground in the airport playing games and getting to know eachother. After a 6 hourt flight to El Salvador and another half hour to Guatemala City we hopped on a 7 hour bus ride to Finca Ixobel. Alex managed to… Read More
I just spoke to our intrepid leaders, Andy and Karen, and they’ve got the entire group together and are heading through SFO airport security as we speak! I have to admit this is an auspicious beginning to the semester as everything seems to be going quite smoothly thus far … and I’m sure the semester will continue accordingly! So, stay tuned for fairly regular blogs from the students on a… Read More
Hola Los Amigos: Alex, Celia, Dan, Heidi, Kaise, Max, y Robert,
This is our blog-site in which all of your friends and family will be vicariously living through. Once a week one of you will be a “blogger”/author who will describe all the juicy details of our amazing, twisting, bumpy and winding roads that we travel along during the next three months. We encourage you to peruse past blogs to… Read More
Happy Mother’s Day! As we post this last blog, Namanda (Nick & Amanda) would like to take the opportunity to thank the mothers (and fathers) out there for giving space for your son and daughters to further spread their wings over Central American’s vibrant currents. How to encapsulate three months of intense living and inspiring transformations… although there is not so much a need for this, since the ‘light bulbs’… Read More
