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End of the Road

jmjourney — Fri, 9 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Portland, United States. By: jmjourney.
After a few weeks of searching and another round of parasites, John and I have found a cutie little apartment in Portland, Maine. The best part abou...

Back in the USA

jmjourney — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: New Mexico, United States. By: jmjourney.
Since we have tacked on cross-country trip from New Mexico to Maine before our journey is officially complete, we have decided to keep updating the ...

Last 24 hours in Central America

jmjourney — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: San Jose, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
After almost six months in Central America, we had just 24 hours left in Costa Rica, what else was there left to do but shop? We had tried a few of t...

Goodbye Central America

jmjourney — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Quepos, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
For someone coming from a country that takes at least 5 days of hard driving to get across, it was a fun albeit dusty and hot experience to say Adio...

Punta Mona

jmjourney — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Manzanillo, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
We rose early to take the bus through Puerto Viejo and into Manzanillo to try and find our way to the sustainable agriculture project of Punta Mona....

Cahuita

jmjourney — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Cahuita, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
Our friends Brandi and Steve came in on the 9th, and we spent a final relaxing few days in Orosi before we said our sad farewells and headed over to...

We love Orosi

jmjourney — Thu, 5 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Orosi, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
It is hard to believe that we have spent two and half weeks here in Orosi at Montana Linda. We have been taking Spanish classes and checking out the...

Where are we going?

jmjourney — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Uvita, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
We traveled yesterday to Uvita over crazybumpy roads to check out a volunteer possibility. Uncertainty arose so we decided to catch the 5am bus to Dom...

Velas Bonitas

jmjourney — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Quepos, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
As Maya mentioned in an earlier TJ, ever since reaching Quepos, my eyes have been sparkling for a fishing trip, particularly offshore. However, the tr...

On the Pacific Side

jmjourney — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Quepos, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
Although the distance wasn�t that great from Monteverde to Quepos, the change in weather and the slowness of the buses due to the road conditions ma...

zipping through the canopy

jmjourney — Fri, 9 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
When we woke up extra early to look out hopefully at the sky to see if we could go rafting, it was still raining cats and dogs and three-toed sloths...

Mt. Arenal and Fortuna

jmjourney — Tue, 6 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
Fortuna is about 16km from Volcano Mt Arenal. On a clear day, you could see smoke, even lava from the volcano. But that is on a clear day. It has...

The Road to Costa Rica and our loss

jmjourney — Sun, 4 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Liberia, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney.
So, it was off to Costa Rica. From the Bio Station in San Ramon, it was a three hour bumpy but beautiful bus ride back to Moyagolpa to catch the ferry...

Granada and Ometepe

jmjourney — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Granada, Nicaragua. By: jmjourney.
Since Christmas was upon us and rumours abounded around the hostel tables that nothing would run during the holiday, we decided to head over to Gran...

Thoughts on Traveling - Maya

jmjourney — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Nicaragua, Nicaragua. By: jmjourney.
Traveling in Latin America was a long-held dream for me, and it is with fondness that I think back now on the visions/expectations I had for what lo...

Thoughts on Nicaragua

jmjourney — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Nicaragua, Nicaragua. By: jmjourney.
I must admit that I was gringo-ishly amazed at the many differences between Guatemala and Nicaragua. Linguistically, Nicas cut off the s's at the en...

Tica bus to Managua and more

jmjourney — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Managua, Nicaragua. By: jmjourney.
After taking two great classes and meeting many great people in San Marcos, we finally decided it was time to say goodbye to Guatemala. After a fina...

San Marcos

jmjourney — Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: San Marcos, Guatemala. By: jmjourney.
Don't you love it when everything falls into place with very little effort? John and I got ourselves over to San Marcos, and within a few hours luck...

Semuc Amazing Champey

jmjourney — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Semuc, Guatemala. By: jmjourney.
The travel gods were with us and we arrived just in time to catch the minibus for the grinding two and a half hour ride over dirt road, rocks and oc...

Coban

jmjourney — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Story from: Coban, Guatemala. By: jmjourney.
The nice owners at Cafe Chil�ro (Cool Beans) in Flores gave us great directions for getting from Flores to Coban, which helped us avoid a costly tra...