Jul 31, 2007 | Accommodations, Caribbean, Crime, Culture Shock, Parismina, Travel Tips, Turtles, Volunteering
Our little Royal Family was not happy in Parismina and we left as soon as humanly possible. The day after our forced march, we were so exhausted that doing a patrol that night was out of the question. And this first day, our only full day there, we were stolen from...
Jul 31, 2007 | Caribbean, Crime, Culture Shock, Parismina, Pueto Viejo, Travel Tips
Hal spent a year in Germany in his youth. During that year, he traveled all over Europe. He said in every country but France, you could hold out your hand with money in it to pay for something and get back the right change. They’d count it out so you’d...
Jul 31, 2007 | Caribbean, Parismina, Turtles
The Parismina posts are a tad humiliating to write because the complete and utter depth of my APness is painfully obvious. AP is JAP without the Jewish. Being a materialistic pampered little thing is certainly not reserved for a people. I can tell any lawyer joke...
Jul 29, 2007 | Caribbean, Teenagers, Whitewater Rafting
The Fearless Four along with Hal the Driver are on the way to doing just this when our car breaks down. Two days before, Hal had picked it up from the shop where it’d been for a week. Driving these roads does a pretty thorough wear and tear job on your...
Jul 29, 2007 | Caribbean, Pueto Viejo, Surfing, Teenagers
It is Sunday afternoon and the boys are finally having their surfing lesson! We’ve been thwarted every single time: stranded the first time and unable to make our date, waves too big the next time, waves too small the next time, then we thought we were leaving...
Jul 28, 2007 | Pueto Viejo
That’s just about all that is happening. Wait. Lemme think… anything else? Nope. Sweating. That covers it. If you are breathing in Puerto Viejo – or PV as the locals refer to it – you are sweating. Dripping from 7am till right about now: 6pm or...
Jul 22, 2007 | Books, Mail and Shipping
There is a grass-roots campaign to save M-Bags! Hallelujah!!! Click here for the info in a .pdf You can sign a petition online, takes a second and these do have an effect. Even if you never plan to send any books to me, please sign the petition because maybe someday...