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Living the Beach Life – Las Peñitas Nicaragua

It didn't START out awesome... but it ended that way. We arrived in November, which (we learned later) is notoriously bad for mosquitoes (since it's the end of rainy season.) And we were really ready for ...

Celebrating Gríteria in León, Nicaragua

I love celebrating and learning about different holidays and traditions while traveling to other countries. One of my favorites was celebrating Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, and Semana Santa in Antigua. H...

Releasing Baby Sea Turtles – Las Peñitas Nicaragua

It's been on the bucket list for awhile. Ever since the first time we moved to Costa Rica in 2007 we've wanted to see and release baby sea turtles. And now, in 2013 we finally had the opportunit...

The Exhilaration of Exploring New Places – León Nicaragua

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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...