Central American Travels.

This part is hard for me to write.

because change is hard,
change is good and a sign of life,
but i am so easily adaptable and attachable
that i didn't want to leave Guatemala.
i mean in a lot of ways i knew our time was "up"
but it's never easy to turn that corner
stomach turning with the aching of things gone by
and the uncertainty of things ahead.
but we turned the corner,
we boarded a chicken bus and we left Guatemala.

sample chicken bus.

this sums up a lot of our travels, overheating and lying in front of the fan all over Central America.

a lady in San Salvador, El Salvador preparing for a days work, these short colorful aprons were common

horse and cart in Grenada, Nicaragua, the oldest Colonial town in Central America

no, not the ocean, this is Lake Nicaragua on the Island of Ometepe. we chose Playa Santo Domingo, there was a crazy thick layer of bugs constantly swarming until the evening breezes swept them away and then i understood. This island is made up of two large volcanoes and a connecting ithmus and incredible sand beaches and warm fresh water waves.

the highlight experience for me in our travels:: staying at "the monkey hut" on Lago Apoyo, a crater lake inside of a giant volcano (right outside of Grenada, Nicaragua), the water was impressively warm and calm. i just adore floating in an inner tube, which we got to do a lot of.


this is funny, i didn't even realize what i was standing in front of but Matt did, haha, my hands are on my hips because i was hot and tired and my chacos were falling apart and giving me blisters

this was our beach of choice and our only Costa Rican beach experience: Playa Samara on the Nicoya Penninsula

welcome to the jungle, kind of the closest i've ever been. after too much heat at the beach we headed for the highlands of Costa Rica::: Monteverde Nat'l Reserve, a

here we are hiking through the Nat'l Reserve with two great Swiss guys we met at our hostel. the bridge allowed us to look down over the top of the canopy of the cloud forest.

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i could upload a photo of the colorful furry tarantulas we saw if you wanted, but then i would be too frightened to check my own sight.