From Ataco, El Salvador to Antigua Nearly a week and a half ago, we made the journey from Concepcion de Ataco, El Salvador to Antigua, Guatemala where we’ll be based for a month. Although the prospect of spending the day bouncing ~8-10 hours between multiple chicken buses sounded scintillating, we opted to hop on the van wagon with some other tourists…
At 45 and 47-year-old nomads, it’s sometimes hard to find our place…not only in the world, but amongst the ages. We live sandwiched in between two travel varieties…the more traditionally or early retired 50/60-somethings, who seemingly have unlimited funds… and the digi nomads, and/or ambitious, experience-driven and childless millennials, and Gen Z’s. We can relate a bit to both, but…
In Summary... This was the first visit to El Salvador for both of us and it was truly a wonderful experience. This tiny Central American country has been on our radar for awhile, especially since it has become safer and more peaceful in recent years. Although only about the size of Massachusetts, it packs a punch of offerings, of which…
From San Salvador to Concepcion de Ataco We had just nine days in El Salvador to work with. Por que? The reason is a marvelous “privilege” of US Citizenry….Greg unfortunately has (deferred) jury duty he couldn’t get out of when we return in late March. Also, we wanted to ensure two month-long stays before we headed back, to align with our…
From Lisbon>London>NYC>Miami>San Salvador In the span of 37 hours... we crossed paths with countless diverse faces bearing passports from all around the world we mindlessly ate and drank from a blur of mood-saving airport lounges we attempted trying-to-sleep Kama Sutra in a variety of contorted positions we trucked more than 15k bearing the full weight of our backpack houses as…
It was so amazing to share this exceptional place called the Azuero Peninsula with our good friends, Kristin and Ondra, who we met while living in Prague in 2008. And...since we were not catering to an attention-demanding wild cat baby this time, it also seemed like a great opportunity to strap on our Panamanian sea legs and take a fishing boat…
After a night in Panama City due to circumstance not desire, our friend Carol picked us up (in a car!) from our hotel to whisk us to our next destination of Valle de Antón, two hours away. The “Valley” is a pueblo tucked inside the heart of an ancient crater and surrounded by mountains and lush cloud forest. Because of…
We landed in DC for a few reasons… 1) Greg, believe it or not, had never been and January seemed like an ideal time to hole up in the plethora of free museums and sites, 2) it was easy to get a centrally located housesit for a couple of weeks so we didn’t have to pay for accommodation, 3) it…
