“Leon” is lion in Spanish. It’s fitting, really, considering that this city is so hot it makes everyone in it feel like they’re being swallowed alive by a giant, concrete, killer cat. Leon wants me dead. Seriously. I’ve developed an eye infection in both eyes and yesterday I counted 52 bug bites…and those were just… Read More LEON, Tigers and Bears, Oh My
The plan was to head down to Panama. But now I’m thinking that I might head home instead. My passport has run out of pages (which means that I’ll to go the American embassy in Managua to get more added), but I think that the bigger obstacle is that I’ve just run out of steam.… Read More Future Travel Plans: ?
That’s a picture of the hammock where I spent the last five days. You can’t see it from the photo, but just to the left of the hammock is the ocean. For five dollars a night, I stayed at a hostel that was only a hundred meters from a deserted beach. The nearest town was… Read More Lost in Nicaragua
“Ahh! An ant is biting my eye!” Not exactly something you say every day, but every once in a while the situation calls for it. Like when you’re laying on a dock on a lake in the Guatemalan jungle and you feel something burrowing its fangs into the corner of your eyeball. “It’s not an… Read More Buggin’ Out in Guatemala