A big thank you to everyone at Yuma’s House, Belize.

I’ve been traveling for fifty-five days now.  I’ve stayed in a lot of different hostels thus far.  Never before have I been so gutted about leaving a place.  When I booked my ten… Continue reading →

“Say what?” My honest responses to seven reactions about my trip.

I’ve been meaning to write this one for a little while.  Over the course of the past six months, I’ve told quite a few people about my upcoming trip to Central America.  In… Continue reading →

I kissed a stingray… and I liked it.

As a backpacker in foreign lands, there are many different sources of information you can use to direct your travels.  You can keep your nose buried in the guidebooks, which is safe but… Continue reading →

Reaching new heights (literally and figuratively) in Guatemala

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have… Continue reading →

Forty days into the trip… first blog post. The math works, yeah?

Hello all, So… the plan for this trip was to have a regularly updated blog but that’s obviously gone to hell.  So you’ll all have to settle for sporadically published tidbits whenever I… Continue reading →