Category: Adventures in Central America
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Black Balls and Green Iguanas
Since arriving in Central America I’ve had to really push past a lot of my hang ups such as fear of human germs, because I keep taking peeled fruit from strangers. An abundance of travel on public transportation involves not only overcoming motion sickness but all of the usual sights, sounds and scents that come…
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Never-ending Rain and My Highly Sensitive Bird
Here’s how five straight days of rain turned into a self-regulated therapy session or as I like to call it: too much time to think! About eighteen years ago I was living in Madison, Wisconsin with my ex husband and our four adopted chihuahuas. Adopted is implied, I didn’t pop those out myself. We actually…
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Charlie’s Chocolate Factory and the Conch Chef
DISCLAIMER: This post is about preparing conchs for dinner. Vegans and animal activists proceed with caution. I’m not looking to get canceled, I am just hungry. Having returned last week from a whirlwind, action-packed two-week Costa Rica/Panama vacation with my new British pal, Anna, I’m quickly reminded of what life is like here on this…
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Kevin Moments
To be fair, Kevin wasn’t that bad. I was just not thrilled with his brand of customer service. By this time in life we should know that there are different personalities and lifestyles everywhere we go and love, tolerance and patience goes a long way. Once in a while my less attractive traits still show…
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Planes Trains and Automobiles
This title is of course referring to the “classic” American movie from the 80’s that starred legends, Steve Martin and John Candy. Full disclosure, there’s really nothing about planes or trains in this story but anytime I have a long travel day or use multiple modes of transportation to get where I’m going, this movie…
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Dipped in Chocolate
I will eventually get to a point with this story and shouldn’t have to defend myself because if you’ve been following any of my writing or been in the same room when I tell a story, you know by now that it’s never the short way to the conclusion. We typically take the long way…
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Operation Dumbo Drop
Guess what? Not everyone speaks English! We should all know this by now – even us Americans. When you’re dropped into a foreign country and a limited amount of humans speak your native language (in this case, English) it’s a real game-changer: a real “fuck-shit” moment, as Tina Fey said in the cute Netflix movie,…
Pixie in Paradise 