After our long flights from China and Central Africa, resting in Frankfurt for a couple of days had been the best idea to recharge for our next month of vacations through Italy, France, and Spain. having purchased a small football had been the best idea, as they had to be active and playing at any …
Month: June 2019
In the summer of 2016, as it was usual (and still is) to meet with my kids during the summer to spend time with them, the plan was to spend a summer traveling through Italy, visit Paris and continue on through Spain. Our summer travels would take an entire month. Silvana and Pablo (then 9 …
San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico was one of my last stops on my backpacking trip through Central America and Mexico. The six weeks long trip that had begun in Panama City, Panama, then on to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico had given me the opportunity to breath new airs, ponder about my …
I have been living in China for the past four years after being hired as a Spanish teacher in the suburbs of the huge city of Shanghai. Honestly, China had really never crossed my mind as a country I wanted to visit, but the opportunity to take my teaching career to the international level came …
I had visited Guatemala when I was a young kid, but on that occasion, I could not appreciate their culture. I wanted to immerse myself in this country’s beautiful scenery I had seen on television and read so much about it. Over the years I had met many people from this Central American country and …
Honduras was the 4th country I visited on my Central America and Mexico backpacking only by road from Panama City, Panama to Houston, Texas in the summer of 2010. Being then known as “The most dangerous country in the world” due mainly to gang activity, I had been well informed about Honduras by my Honduran …
After leaving the beautiful country of Costa Rica with its beautiful beaches, lush mountains, and tourists everywhere, I crossed the border into Nicaragua. The scenery had been shocking. Nicaragua was then the complete opposite of what I had seen in touristy Costa Rica, but it would be Nicaragua the country I would soon fall in …
Costa Rica was the second country I visited on my road backpacking trip from the Central American country of Panama to Houston, Texas during the summer of 2010. I arrived in this wonderful Central American country in the month of July of that year. Costa Rica was then the country most visited by tourists in …
In the summer of 2010, I decided to go for a backpacking trip only by road from Panama City to Houston, Texas. The idea had begun sometime in 2009 after struggling to cope with a recent divorce that had changed my life drastically. Then, I felt the only solution to think clearly was to leave …