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Beers Around Costa Rica

August 31, 2014 By John Widmer 27 Comments

Of all the countries within Central America, Costa Rica was our favorite when it comes to beer. If you’ve been to Costa Rica before then you’ve almost certainly had the ubiquitous Imperial. But there are lots of other goodies to try here in addition to this standby. During our most […]

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Sailing Around the San Blas Islands: Our Voyage from Panama to Colombia

May 19, 2014 By John Widmer 14 Comments

Determining How to Get From Panama to Colombia To this point we had successfully made it all the way from Mexico to Panama completely overland aside from a few small stints overwater to some islands. Using buses, cars, boats, and a train, our journey took us the entirety of Central […]

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Rushing Around Costa Rica Part 3: Whitewater Rafting the Pacuare River

May 14, 2014 By John Widmer 4 Comments

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 […]

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Beers Around Nicaragua

May 13, 2014 By John Widmer 11 Comments

Nicaragua was a bit of a beer wasteland, even more so than what we found in Guatemala (our last beer review). There are only about four commonly found yellow fizzy beers here, no small breweries (update: there’s now a craft brewpub in SJDS) or craft beers, and imports were typically rare and […]

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Rushing Around Costa Rica Part 2: In Search of Nature and Adventure

May 10, 2014 By John Widmer 2 Comments

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 […]

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Rushing Around Costa Rica, Part 1: The Waterfall Edition

April 21, 2014 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

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 […]

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The Best of Travel, Adventure, Food, and Drinks Around Central America

April 18, 2014 By John Widmer 20 Comments

We traveled through all eight countries of Central America over the course of more than three months. Our 12-week Central America route took us overland from the Yucatan region of Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and finally to Panama. During this Central America overland journey, […]

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Surfing Around San Juan del Sur Nicaragua

April 16, 2014 By John Widmer 3 Comments

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 […]

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Discovering the Island of Ometepe

April 14, 2014 By John Widmer 2 Comments

Kayaking Rio Istiam

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 […]

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Top 5 Things to Do In Granada, Nicaragua

April 13, 2014 By John Widmer 1 Comment

horse-drawn carriage ride through Granada Nicaragua

There are lots of great things to do things to do in Granada, Nicaragua. While roaming around this charming colonial town, we tried to sample as many things to do in Granada as possible, so that we can bring you our top 5 recommendations from span from leisure to adventure. So… what […]

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Volcano Boarding Down Cerro Negro in Nicaragua

April 8, 2014 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

The American reality show Survivor has been a guilty pleasure of ours since the Season One, Episode One. But it was during Season 21: Nicaragua when one of the reward challenges sent the winners on a volcano-boarding trip down Cerro Negro. From that point forward, this black cinder cone volcano […]

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Roaming Around Antigua, Guatemala

April 6, 2014 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

Antigua Guatemala Street

If you ever travel to Guatemala, chances are at some point you will come to the city of Antigua. So after spending nearly a month in this great country, it was a fitting end for us to finally make our way to this town before heading South to Nicaragua. From what […]

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Hiking San Pedro Volcano Guatemala Summit

March 27, 2014 By John Widmer 2 Comments

Volcan San Pedro from trailhead

This is part 3 of our 3-part post about our Lake Atitlan adventures. Here’s part 1 and part 2. The doctor had said to stay off my leg for 10 days or until the infection had healed. It had been about a week and although far from healed, it was […]

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Beers Around Guatemala

March 25, 2014 By John Widmer 14 Comments

Beer mug guatemala

We loved Guatemala for so many reasons… the awesome recreation, the beauty of the highlands, the friendly people, and the terrific value for your money. Although there are plenty of great reasons to come to Guatemala, beer tourism probably isn’t one of them. But if you are making your way […]

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Paragliding Lake Atitlan: What It Was Like To Soar Over Guatemala

March 24, 2014 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

Paragliding over Lago Atitlan and Panajachel

While traveling through San Pedro, Guatemala with a nasty skin infection on my leg, we were looking for some fun things to do that would keep me off my leg. We had heard that you could go paragliding in Lago Atitlan, so that fits the bill! But we didn’t even really know […]

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