Volcanoes, Scorpions, and Bats!
With the promise of a Lava and Bats we were headed to Masaya Volcano.
Read MoreFunky Smells and Weird cars…welcome to Manila
We noticed right away that the native language, Tagalan, sounded very similar to Spanish. This was the perfect city for our transition from latin america to south east asia.
Read MoreGranada, Nicaragua
Granada was our first stop in Honduras. We had no idea what to expect when our bus dropped us off in the main square.
Read MoreOur Flight to Asia…
We flew EVAAIR from LA to Manila, Philippines with a layover in Taipei, Taiwan. We got these nice nifty chinese-size slippers. They didn’t fit my feet but Leah loved them. Our meal was unexpectedly normal. Except for some fish floss. Not sure what it’s for, but it smelled and tasted very fishy. In college I always watched “The Most Extreme Elimination Challenge” Where Japanese people would run through an obstacle course. Everything was in Japanese but then there was English commentary dubbed over. It was a hilarious show. Well, on our flight they had the same show! Except. It was in English with Chinese dubbed over it. And instead of Japanese people making fools of themselves, there were Americans. It made me chuckle. And our terminal in Taipei was a Hello Kitty terminal. Fully equip with pink hello kitty chairs, a hello kitty playroom, and hello kitty boarding instructions. The flight wasn’t too bad. EVAAIR was a nice airline. The seats were spacious, the services friendly and the price...
Read MoreHanging Around Costa Rica
We headed to Santa Elena, Costa Rica in search of a jungle adventure. This was our last stop in a short tour of the beautiful and expensive Costa Rica. The hostel we stayed at was “Sleepers Sleep Cheaper” and the owners were an extremely helpful family. The owner of the hostel even made Hostelcookers.com patches for our backpacks. We went to a restaurant in downtown Santa Elena which was built around a tree. There was some amazing artwork in the restaurant. We had some coffee made the traditional Costa Rican way. Coffee grounds are put into a strainer and hot water is poured through. The strainer is tight knit so it takes a while for the hot water to go through: allowing the coffee to brew. And giving me time to ponder. Here are a couple pictures. The next morning we went to nearby “Hanging Bridges.” Each bridge stretched for hundreds of feet above the jungle canopy. The view of the fast rain forest was amazing from above. We didn’t see any wildlife in the jungle, but the paths were still beautiful. picasaView plugin: Could not load data from picasaweb. Maybe the user or specified album does not exist?This was the generated url which failed at picasaweb: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/wolfgramb/album/20111009HangingBridgesSantaElenaCostaRica?kind=photo&thumbsize=144u&start-index=1It returned the following data: Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 404. That’s an error. The requested URL /data/feed/api/user/wolfgramb/album/20111009HangingBridgesSantaElenaCostaRica?kind=photo&thumbsize=144u&start-index=1 was not found on this server. That’s all we...
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