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The Exhilaration of Exploring New Places – León Nicaragua

We astoundingly made it into Nicaragua. Spending the night in León, we liked what we saw as we explored the next day. The city was colonial and quaint, big, but not TOO large. It had some nice grocery stores...

Evading Cop Bribes and Borrowing Money to Get Into Nicaragua (aka Crossing TWO Borders in ONE Day with 5 Kids!) – El Sal/Honduras & Honduras/Nicaragua

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Unfortunately, El Salvador didn't have what we were looking for. So we made the decision to move on to Nicaragua. That inevitably meant crossing through a small portion of Honduras. Might as well do it on...

Why We Spent Only One Short Week in El Salvador Part 2 (and Our Next Crazy Challenge)

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With the sun always comes new hope and perspective. The darkness of the previous night dissipated with the suns rays. Greg was feeling better, we had a filling breakfast at the gas station ‘buffet’, and reco...

Why We Spent Only One Short Week in El Salvador (and the Precariousness of Travel)

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We made it to El Salvador. For months, almost since we'd come to Guatemala, my husband always said, "I want to check out El Salvador. I want to go to El Salvador." El Salvador was always on his mind. We'd...

Guatemala El Salvador Border Crossing

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Last time they wouldn't let us in. We tried to visit their country. But they told us we were 'illegals', and wouldn't let us come in. So we went back to Guatemala, then the next time we renewed our visa's...

Time to Say Goodbye to Guatemala… for Good?

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These little ladies came to wish us farewell... and even shed a tear. I was so touched. It always happens this way. We knew it was going to happen sometime. We thought it would have happened a lot sooner...

Extreme Bungee Slingshot / Catapult – Antigua, Guatemala

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The plan was to leave Antigua Sunday afternoon to head toward the El Salvador border. But during our 'family travel meetup', Greg decided that he wanted to some extreme bungee action the following day. Ge...

Why I Love Antigua Guatemala

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We awoke at the 'campground' of the Tourist Police station in Antigua Guatemala after getting kicked out of our previous camp spot by the Guatemalan National Police the night before. We'd last visited Antigu...

The One Where the Guatemalan Police Kick Us Out

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It was the perfect spot. We discovered it after being stopped by dancing in the streets on our way to Antigua. There it was, off to the left. It sounded so appealing, how could we resist? Fuentes caliente...

Dancing in the Streets for Dia de Los Muertos – Guatemala

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After the Kite Festival, we were headed toward Antigua where we intended to stay the night, when traffic suddenly stopped. Slightly annoyed at the interruption in our journey, I figured I would at least go c...