By default, our physical presence determines a lot about how we see ourselves and how others see us. Being 6’9”, it’s not often I feel undersized. Occasionally when playing basketball I’ll run across someone taller than myself, but those meetings are few and far between. My brief time in Ecuador…
My departure from Costa Rica effectively ended the first leg of the trip. Central America is in the books and admittedly it’s been a bit of a whirl-wind. I’ve traveled a little faster than I probably should have, seemingly spending almost as much time on a bus as in a…
The bus to Panama left at 1:00 pm, so with the ordeal in Nicaragua fresh in my mind, I arrived at the station at 11:30. I checked in, at the same time asking them to reprint my ticket as somehow, even with my passport in their hands, someone managed to…
I chose the fairly popular TICA (Trans-International Central America) bus line for the leg of the trip from Honduras to Costa Rica. It’s pretty simplistic, but a lot more comfortable and faster than the chicken buses. Think a little more Southwest than Midwest Express. However, somewhere in my super-rudimentary Spanish…
So it’s been a bit since my last entry. And the discrepancies in the dates of my posts and the current date are beginning to bother me. I’ve been writing a lot in my journal, but haven’t been doing such a good job at translating that into pixels. As I’ve…
Note: Best read while listening to “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: soundtrack. As kids, we all grow up drawing pictures of mountains. Nice rolling hills in front of cone-shaped snow covered peaks. I’m not sure if it’s a guy thing, or just a Matt thing,…
I’ve read that the bus trips through Central and South America are where half of your weird stories will be born. I’m only about 10 days in, and I’d say that’s got a pretty good chance of being true. I boarded the bus to Guatemala City at the Belize City…
If nothing else, I’m going to figure out my sleep number on this trip. You can imagine some of the beds are a bit suspect for nine bucks a night. As of this morning, I know it’s not “100”. The bed in this room is just a bit softer than…
I got up at 6:00 am this morning knowing I was headed out. It’s a fun feeling knowing almost every time you buy a ticket, it’s one-way. I had some breakfast in the shared kitchen consisting of bananas, apricot yogurt and some toasted bread. I was soon joined by a…
As I sit in my guesthouse room in Belize City, waiting both for the rain to pass, and for my next bus to Guatemala City, I thought I’d take a second and summarize my experience in Mexico. I chose Mexico first for a few reasons: 1) In all my travels,…