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 …
The first time I went backpacking was in the year 1997 in my native country Chile. My friend Jose (Pancho) and I had set off on a month-long journey from central Chile to the south of the country. Then, I was a young and naive guy hungry for a new experience and above all, a …
I became interested in scuba diving around 2009 as I was planning a summer road trip from Panama City, Panama all the way to Houston Texas. I had planned the trip with plenty of prior research. The trip itself would take me 6 weeks and I would visit Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, …
We are not a professional cyclist. We just happened to fall into this activity by curiosity and of course the desire to burn some calories in the process, as well a way to feed our adventurous spirits. I purchased a used bicycle about two years ago from a colleague that was leaving the country and …