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 …
In the month of July 2017, I had the opportunity to travel through China and Thailand with my girlfriend and my children Pablo and Silvana. The trip had been meticulously planned with months of anticipation. After much thinking about the route and each place we would visit, as well as considering the time we would …
Without a doubt, Vietnam’s capital city, Hanoi has many great places to visit on a short stay. For us (My kids and I) only stopping in this city for one night before heading to the mountainous town of Sapa, our time was limited. If you have traveled with kids before, particularly teenagers, you surely know …
Traveling through Vietnam this summer was surely an experience to be remembered for a long time. This country is full of great places to see, things to do and its people is very welcoming to foreigners, particularly to those wanting to learn about their culture. After arriving in Ho Chi Minh and resting for …