Utila is an island off the north coast of Honduras and it was the highlight of our trip so far.  This place is crazy cheap, so if you are on a budget then you are definitely in the right place.  The main reason everyone comes to this island is to do their open water dive…

We hopped on a couple of chicken buses to Granada, via Managua, to Leon. Tuktuk drivers immediately swamped us as we arrived at the bus terminal; this was the first time this has happened to us in Central America. Luckily it was isolated to the bus station. The next thing we noticed about Leon was…

We took a couple of chicken buses (local buses) from San Juan del Sur to Granada, first to Rivas and then we hopped on a connection to Granada. We didn’t realise that this would involve actual chickens on the bus… The local guys found it hilarious that the chickens and ducks just thrown in bags…

The border crossing from Costa Rica into Nicaragua was a bit hectic. A local bus dropped us off at the border and we were immediately hounded by people trying to ‘help’ us – for a fee of course. Luckily a local Nicaraguan on his way home offered to help us navigate the various offices and…

While we were in Costa Rica, we knew we wanted to do one of the adventure sport activities that they offer. We decided on white water rafting. The neat thing is, is that the company that we went with picked us up from Puerto Viejo and then would drop us to another place of our…

We left Panama City and made our way across the border to Puerto Viejo in Costa Rica. We were originally planning on taking local buses, but in order to fly into Panama we had to have a bus ticket out of the country, so we had booked a pretty pricey shuttle that unfortunately we could…

Figuring out how to get from Panama City to Bocas Del Toro was pretty simple really – but long.  We took the overnight bus from Panama City to Almirante, and it was pretty eventful. The bus left at about 6pm and was supposed to take 10 hours, so that we could arrive in time to…

Hola! Panama is really hot. It was even hot when we arrived in Panama City in the middle of the night. And we did not acclimatise for some time. We had organised a pick up from the airport with our hotel because we didn’t really feel like navigating a new city in a new country…

We arrived at our motel in Arlington within a couple of hours from Abilene. It was just down the road from the Globe Life Park Stadium. After a quick bag drop we headed to the stadium to watch the Texas Rangers take on the Toronto Blue Jays at baseball. We were seated in some cheap…

Now this is the post that I have been looking forward to writing the most. We had a blast in Abilene, of all places. The drive from Austin to Abilene was incredible, it is spring so all the wild flowers are blooming and we saw so much wildlife. The were a lot of tortoises and…