i can't quite remember the last time i wrote but i believe i was in guatemala at the lake. it was beautiful and very relaxing.l i didn't do anything but sit on porch of the hostel and read newsweek magazing. i only stopped for meals and to take a few pictures. to get to the hostel you have to take a bus to the lake and then a small motor boat to the other side of the lake.some australian guys ran it and we all had a good time the five days i was there. w...

good morning from antigua, guatemala. i hope all is well with everyone back home or wherever you are in the world. i last wrote from san jose, costa rica a week ago. the next morning i jumped on a bus with jesse, a guy from dallas, tx whom i met at school. we made it across the border of nicaragua into san juan del sur. san juan is a small beach town on the pacific side. only a couple thousand people but i see a lot of promise in it. it looks to be th...

so i'm in puerto viejo, costa rica...southern carribean side...def. a different culture over here...lots of reggae and rasta. good seafood and we got waves this week for the first time in two years...God has blessed me with waves for over 90% of my time down here. i'm so thankful. waves have been really big and i broke my first board yesterday..but i can get it fixed for 50 bucks. better the board than my neck. i stayed for a few days in playa hermosa la...

so i'm working on getting a website set up with pictures and a video that i made...the video will show my trip to a "small town" in southern costa rica. when we got there the waves were so big and perfect that the locals asked us not to tell anyone back home where we were or tell them where we took the pictures. its a small town where everyone surfs and they don't want it to become a tourist spot. anyway, i'll explain more later but they guy wh...

well i guess its been another week? or maybe not. anyway it's too hot to be outside right now so i'll enjoy the ac for a few minutes. this week has been pretty nice..not as much rain. the waves have been too big somedays to surf and the other days humble me enough already. last wednesday we were in the grocery for class having to find ingredients to make dinner. i ran into an americal guy who turned out to own the kayaking company th...