Many people have been scratching their heads and wondering why the heck we’ve ventured into Ukraine while the country is in the middle of the largest conflict of its young history. Friends, relatives, and followers of this blog have all expressed concerns for our safety and well-being. So we felt […]
Searching for Lviv’s Masonic Restaurant
We had heard some buzz about a secret masonic restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. So one evening we set off on a mission to find it. It would be no easy task but we were up for the challenge. We walked up and down a street several times looking for a […]
Month #8 Update on Roaming Around the World
Whoa, we just can’t believe another month has already flown by. I remember writing our 7-month update from Paris and not even knowing where in the world we would be 30 days down the road. I now write to you from the Czech Republic with our 8-month update! Month #8 […]
Rushing Around Costa Rica Part 3: Whitewater Rafting the Pacuare River
This is our last entry about our hurried visit through Costa Rica. You can read about our highlights, lowlights, and opinions of some of the places we visited during our jam-packed tour of the country during Part 1 and Part 2. The last adventure during our stint in Costa Rica […]
Rushing Around Costa Rica Part 2: In Search of Nature and Adventure
This is Part-2 of our hurried visit through Costa Rica. See Part 1: Waterfall Edition (Rincon and Tenorio) here. Overall we had very mixed feelings about Costa Rica as a travel destination. We found there are undoubtedly some very beautiful worthwhile destinations to visit; yet other places seemed overly glorified […]
Rushing Around Costa Rica, Part 1: The Waterfall Edition
So far our travels through Central America had taken us on a pretty relaxed and slow pace, but when we arrived in Costa Rica, we found ourselves running very short on time. Now we would have to rush through this country and see what we could pretty quickly in order […]
Surfing Around San Juan del Sur Nicaragua
We often say that we’re not as interested in beach towns because as native Floridians and residents for about 30 years, we always had a beach nearby. So its simply not as much as a novelty for us. But San Juan del Sur has made us second-guess our stance on […]
Discovering the Island of Ometepe
Getting to Ometepe Of our four stops in Nicaragua (Leon, Granada, Ometepe, San Juan del Sur), we enjoyed Ometepe the most. This volcanic island is located smack dab in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, the largest lake in Central America. To get to Ometepe, you board a ferry for about an hour […]