This winter we didn’t do our normal lengthy cold weather escape. It didn’t quite work out the way we had hoped the last few times, so we decided this year to take a few weeks to travel somewhere warm without working. For a little over three weeks, we traveled between Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El […]
I used to say that all I needed out of a hotel or hostel was that it had to be safe and it had to be clean. I didn’t care much beyond that. It was simply a place to sleep. But lately, whether it’s due to a string of not-so-great hotels or due to the […]
Many of the destinations that are popular in Honduras are so due to scuba diving. Since neither of us dive, we decided to skip the coastal areas. I was more interested in ruins. So even though we had just seen Tikal in Guatemala, a few days later we were in Copan Ruinas to see another […]
As with a lot of less developed parts of the world, solid, reliable information about transportation for Central America was not always so easy to find online. My trusty Lonely Planet Central America guidebook helped with some legs, and other travel blogs helped as well. But there were several pieces we couldn’t find ahead of […]