I arrived back in NY on Friday night, a full week ago. The trip was fine, really, but long. I left Dominical in a friend of mine’s pickup truck at 5:30am. We drove for exactly 4 hours to the airport in San Jose. My flight wasn’t until 2:50pm, so I sat around the airport for […]
So we got back from Panama after another harrowing 12 hour traveling ordeal consisting of boats, buses, taxis, cookies, flaring tempers, and sweat. I’ll spare you the details, but trust me, going from Dominical to Bocas del Toro by land fucking sucks. Luckily, Bocas was absolutely amazing. I loved it and highly recommend it for […]
So I survived Scuba training and am now PADI certified. We went out the day before yesterday for the last 2 dives of the training. The first dive went well and I did all the exercises perfectly. I was with the instructor and 2 semi-retarded girls who weren’t doing exercises, but were managing to float […]
The last few weeks have been more hectic than usual. By “more hectic” I suppose I just mean, “I had some stuff to do, which is a hell of a lot more than nothing to do.” Both my sisters visited from NY. After a horrific ordeal trying to get out of San Jose (lost in […]
I am overwhelmed at the sheer number of people who have remembered my birthday and written to me. It makes me very sorry that I forgot all of your birthdays. I suppose Facebook helps and many of the messages came through my Wall or private messages.
Anyway, thanks. I am 35 now, and living like an […]
Hey everyone. It’s been a little busy around here so I haven’t had too much internet cafe time. Oh how I miss wifi at home.
A lot has happened since last we left off. Today was the end of my first week of near full-time Spanish studies at Adventure Education Center in Dominical. 9am - 1:30pm […]
The last trip I took before leaving Dubai was a roadtrip up to Mussandam, Oman with some good friends. We went a traditional dhow-type boat and chased dolphins in the morning until reaching our snorkeling destination. It was a fantastic weekend. Here are some of the pics.
[thanks to Hind, Will, Noora, Khalid, and Rabie for […]
Everything is good here. I’ve been staying in a house right on the beach in Playa Guapile, about 6km north of Dominical. A friend of friends rented it until the middle of the month, but went home last week and gave it to me for free. The house is huge, but very basic. I’ve got […]
I organized and tagged all the photos from last year’s Kerala, India trip and uploaded to Flickr. Turns out that yesterday’s broken image scare was a strange problem with either Costa Rica, the ISP, or this internet cafe causing nearly 50% of everyone’s photos to show up as broken images for me. Looks like all […]
I have been complete shit at post-processing, tagging, and organizing my photos in the last few months. I have tons of stuff from India, Musandam Oman, Beirut, Colombia, and now Costa Rica. I spent all day today working on the Colombia stuff and uploaded over a hundred decent images to this set.
One major problem […]
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Things are starting to shape up quite nicely here in Dominical. I have found a place to live more permanently than Tortilla Flats in town. It´s a small studio apartment overlooking the beach of Dominicalito (a smaller bay-beach right next to Dominical) about a mile walk from town. It´s only $300/month and the only real […]
I sometimes try to explain to people the only good thing to ever come out of Rochester, NY was the Nick Tahou’s Garbage Plate. Most people can barely believe that it is a plate of macaroni salad and home fries, with 2 cheeseburgers on top, with chopped onions, mustard, and Nick’s world famous hot/meat sauce […]