27 May '16

Central America Tops and Flops

Posted in Belize – Costa Rica – El Salvador – Guatemala – Honduras – Nicaragua – Panama

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This time last year, I was flying back to the USA after four months spent in one of my favorite pockets of planet earth: Central America. Over the course of five different trips, I’ve now been lucky enough to visit each of the seven countries making up this sub-continent — some of them multiple times! A…

21 Jul '15

The Great Escape: Month 45 Roundup

Posted in El Salvador – Nicaragua – Roundups

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Note: I know there’s been plenty of recapping going on around these parts lately! I’m still fairly behind on my monthly roundups, but it is kind of fun to have a little blast from the past, no? Lots of juicy details inside! . Month 45 was, quite simply, amazing. One of the overall happiest periods of…

21 May '15

In Search of Electrolytes in El Tunco

Posted in El Salvador

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As I waved the last of my New York friends goodbye, I mulled my next move. Equilibrio was over. El Cuco, for all its charms, was no longer an option after ten days without viable internet. Guatemala was calling, yet I wasn’t quite ready to leave El Salvador. And so I made my way just a…

2 Mar '15

Photo of the Week 194: El Salvador

Posted in El Salvador – Photos of the Week

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Leaving El Cuco, I made a beeline for yet another popular stretch of El Salvador sand — the colorful surf town of El Tunco. Here, I encountered a string of ridiculous bad travel luck, including losing my bank card, breaking my favorite pair of flip flops (kind of tragic when you wear them every single day)…