Tag Archives: Wanderlust

Advice for the Road

Look back and smile. Appreciate the butterflies. Cherish the coming and going. Be okay with leaving. Feel your emotions. And then let them out into the world. Write things down. Scream when you want to. Sing out loud. Cry when you need to. Bounce around when you just have to. Look up. Take deep breaths. CloseContinue reading “Advice for the Road”

Death, Movement and Stillness

This is the last month in which I can say “My dad died last year.” Yup, I’ve thought about that. Usually we count down towards the future in anticipation of something, but I know it has been eighteen months or a year and a half since my dad unexpectedly died; and in one month, itContinue reading “Death, Movement and Stillness”

Nicaragua & Costa Rica: Top 10 Most Ridiculous Things That Really Happened

We miss being abroad. We’d re-live all of these moments in a hot sec: 1. The bus driving away with our backpacks and passports on it. And us engaging in a bus chase with a taxi. 2. Leaving our passports in the first hostel we stayed in in Nicaragua. 3. Christine chased a Nicaraguan kidContinue reading “Nicaragua & Costa Rica: Top 10 Most Ridiculous Things That Really Happened”

9 cities, 14 days

We’re not sure if our brains have the capacity to talk about the last two weeks right now. It’s been one adventure after another. In a nutshell, this is what the last 14 days entailed: 1. Volcano boarding down Cerro Negro in León, Nicaragua. 2. Watching a sea turtle nest, and relocating its eggs. #SaveTheSeaTurtlesContinue reading “9 cities, 14 days”

Travel is Relative

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”

So. Many. Feelings.

Goooooooood morning Nicaragua. What a pleasure it is to wake up within your borders. We woke up on top bunks today, to the sun shining in our faces and the sounds of español as the locals greet each other a good morning outside our window. We’ve been in Managua, Nicaragua, for 12 hours now, andContinue reading “So. Many. Feelings.”