March 2011
10 posts
Lesson number..
Got the reggae music going. Making gluten-free chocolate chip cookies in the warmth of 1207….
Gluten-free cookies are really hard to make well….but I feel like I can eat as many as I want and not get fat cause they don’t have any carbs. Yum.
And so I experience snow again.
Arrival time to Montreal: 5:30 am.
Layin in bed with my beautiful Cawleen hidden from the snow outside. I experience winter for the first time this year! Bring on the hot chocolate. :)
Last night in CentralAmerica.
Back in Maleku Hostel in Alajuela where I spent my first night of my journey. Now I spend my last. Took a cold airconditioned 9 hour bus ride from Managua this morning and miss Nicaragua already, but ready to see those Montrealites…but not ready for the cold. Its 70 degrees in Alajuela tonight and I can barley handle it.
Sac of Mangos.
Arrived in Managua on Wednesday. Walked around the city a bit with Jorge and found a mango tree with tons of fresh mangoes for eating! We filled my bag as much as we could and literally had like 20 pounds worth. It´s beautiful that in Central America you can load up on free fruit pretty much anywhere…even in the huge city of Managua.
In Leon now. Beautiful but burning hot. The Cathedrals...
The Last Bus.
Left for Granada on Saturday. Took the 3:30 bus to Rivas just in time to make the last bus to Granada. The last bus. EVERYONE wants to take the last bus. I mean everyone. You´re so squished that even if the bus makes an extremely surprising and sudden stop you won´t fall because it´s so packed. You´re sweating and everyone else is sweating and you hope at every stop that a lot of people will...
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We had quite a scare yesterday on the Pacific coast because of the tsunami, but all is well. The loud warnings on the intercoms really tend to freak me out and hearing them all day wasn´t very comforting. People emptied the streets and at 2:00 there was no one around. I went up to a house higher up with some friends and looked out on the beach from the vista at the time the big waves were supposed...
Maybe look up?
My best friends on this trip have been my jar of Nutella (which I recently unfortunately finished) and my Tevas. I wear my Tevas religiously. I have 2 other pairs of shoes that I brought but really just take up unneccesary space in my backpack. The other night after a walk on the beach I returned to where my shoes were being guarded by a friend to find one of my Tevas mysteriously missing. Sandals...
It's hot outside.
I wish I had brought my Ipod. I have taken so many silent bus trips that would have been a bit more enjoyable filled with a bit of Old Crow Medicine Show or maybe even some JBiebs. Hahah. Right now it’s hot as hell outside and I could use a bit of Ryan Bingham or John Mayer. That’s about it.
Monteverde.
Arrived in Monteverde, CR two days ago to freezing weather and rain! Very big change, and I have had to scrounge out all of my warm weather clothes, which really only consists of one thin long sleve shirt and my blue jeans. I woke up terrified the next morning thinking that I was going to freeze to death, but was lucky and stepped outside to beautiful weather. It feels like Georgia fall here...
Corcovado.
Crossed the Panama boarder and bussed up to Golfito, Costa Rica and took a water taxi to Puerto Jiminez on the Osa Peninsula. Slept in Puerto Jiminez and went to Bolita the next day, a small organic farm on the Corcovado National Park boarder. Beautiful place. Extremely peaceful, however, the walk to the hostel is quite intense. We woke up early Monday morning and hiked through Corcovado on the...
