I’m writing this email from a cave. It’s a delightful cave, full of Turkish carpets and hardwood floors, with little carved windows and a fireplace. Outside is a covered terrace with pots of geraniums and a pool a little farther on. This sort of lodging is common out here in the Cappadocia region of Turkey […]
I’m writing from Selcuk, a town on the Aegean coast of Turkey. (The innkeeper is watching horseracing on television right next to me, and the volume is very loud, so my thoughts might be scrambled!) We only just got to Turkey today, and already we love it! This is the first time I’ve had access […]
I fly out in a few hours on another round of travels – this time I’ll be covering good chunks of Greece and Turkey over the next two weeks. I’m not planning on learning any languages this time, but I do think there will be plenty of adventures. I’ll send occasional updates so you can see how […]
It´s been a bit longer than usual since my last update, and quite a bit has happened. I think we left off with me having a great time snorkeling in Belize, then having a long trip to Honduras via some uber-sketchy port towns in Guatemala. Well, picking up from there, the last leg of the […]
Whew! Today was an adventure! I traveled from Puerto Barrios (a super dodgy port town in Guatemala) to La Ceiba, Honduras. I left at 5:30am, changed buses four times, crossed one international border, took two taxies, and located a hostel that was identified incorrectly on the map — all before 5pm, and all by myself. That¨s right – […]
As you can see from the subject, I’m back in Guatemala — and I definitely have some fun adventures to recount. But before the travel log, I’ll vent some of my complaints with a short list of things I would do if I were in charge: First, I would outlaw Doritos. Honestly, whoever thought it […]
I know I can’t compete with the news of new babies, breaking ground on houses, and almond-eating cats, but since I’m leaving Mexico in the morning and wont´t have a chance to write for a day or so, I should give a quick update about the past few days. I got into Mexico on Friday and […]
I can´t believe my spanish classes are almost over! I just bought my bus ticket to go to San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexico on Friday. I´ve had a great time learning spanish and living a relaxed (chilly) life here in Xela, but I´m definitely excited to get down into the jungles and see […]
So another week (or so has past) and I have good news for all of you: I´ve figured out how to make apostrophes easily! You can now enjoy a properly punctuated email (at least as far as contractions go – I make no promises for semicolons). Lets see, so the highlights of the past week […]
I feel kind of like I am writing early in a mission… (oh, and by the way, dont judge me for not writing with apostrophes–the keyboard is super annoying and it the effort to put in apostrophes is sucking my will to live, so Im abandoning that project). So Ive been in Quetzaltenango (Xela for […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 