We received travel vouchers for successfully completing our Peer Mentor internships with API, and we used them to purchase our flights. We booked them in October after continuously searching for flights to anywhere. We decided on Costa Rica because we had heard wonderful things from #hAPI study abroad students – we added Nicaragua in because,Continue reading “Travel is Relative”
Tag Archives: Adventure
(Snowboarding – Snow) + Volcano
Volcano boarding. Two words we never knew could go together. Well, in Nicaragua, they do. And we did it. Today we woke up early and explored León. We saw the Catedral de León, got smoothies, and made scrambled eggs with tomato and zucchini at the hostel just in time for the 9 am volcano boardingContinue reading “(Snowboarding – Snow) + Volcano”
We’ll Cross That Border When We Get There
The moment you set an alarm for 4:30am, you deserve an interesting day. We got nothing short of that on the day we crossed the border from Nicaragua to Costa Rica. Here’s our attempt at describing what was the longest, sketchiest, most entertaining Cross The Border Day. When we climbed out of our bunks atContinue reading “We’ll Cross That Border When We Get There”
A Love Letter to Sofia
When Andrés first told us that the hostel was “animal friendly” and that they had a cat and a dog, we didn’t think anything of it. And then when we first saw you as we walked through the gate, standing at the top of the steps waiting to meet us, we just knew. We lovedContinue reading “A Love Letter to Sofia”
Kerianne Baylor 