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“Ok Christine, here is where you get out.” Our Belizean tour guide, David, who had informed me earlier that he had done a lot of things in the Cockscomb Jaguar Reserve, but didn’t want to add “delivered a baby” onto the list, was now floating ahead of the group and pointing to the embankment. We [...]

This week I’m writing from Belize while on a Travel Blogger Fam trip hosted (and paid for– the trip, not the post) by the Belize Tourism Board. I am posting with a 24 hour lag.  We arrived on Monday 11/9. I stepped off the plane in Belize and it hit me. That sweet smell of [...]

Today, I’m flying to Belize courtesy of Belize Tourism. I’ll be joining four other bloggers for a six day Fam Trip, where they’ve arranged a packed itinerary of jungle tours, cave tubing, zip line canopy tours, snorkeling, parasailing, Mayan ruins and more.  Oh and they’re putting up us in some lovely hotels and hosting all [...]

It all started with a very bad idea.  Maybe it was the lack of showering or the inability to cook our own food that clouded our judgment, but one morning, in lieu of fresh bottled water, we decided to make tea with tap water.  My husband and I were in Guatemala at the time, living [...]

Back in college, when I lived in Northampton, MA,  I swore I would never stay.  The graduate school drop outs turned baristas, the aging hipster bar backs with Betty Page hair dos and a fetish for pleather, the insane, the homeless, the borderline crazies, the academics, the failed poets, the psychotic lesbians next door who [...]

Granada, Nicaragua is so cute, you could put it in your pocket. If the cobblestone streets, Spanish colonial style-housing and creeping blossoms peaking from behind courtyard walls weren’t enough, take their cab drivers. There was the kindly older man who followed us in his cab to make sure we followed his directions to the hostel [...]

Last month, I returned to Guatemala for a few more weeks of Spanish language school. On the way we had a stop over in Guatemala City, and waited in a tiny independent bus terminal for our next bus to arrive. It was a beautifully sunny day and I sipped my generic orange soda on the [...]

If I close my eyes and focus, I can nearly picture it– me in heels and a suit, rolling a suitcase behind me, laptop bag over one shoulder, trying to hail a cab and text on my blackberry at the same time. It’s strange, but the most visceral memory of those years is the physical [...]

Nearly 6 years ago, a coworker went to Nicaragua and visited Isla Ometepe.  I didn’t know the name of it then, just that there were two volcanoes in the middle of a lake in Nicaragua.  I google-mapped the satellite view and saw the white puffs of smoke from each volcano, the dusty road that lined [...]

I spent two weeks in Tamarindo. It was my last stop in Costa Rica, before I headed north to Nicaragua. The hostel was perfect. La Botella de Leche has it all: offbeat décor (think cows everywhere), open air seating, a full kitchen, and an owner who you want to get to know (a women from [...]