As requested, here are the prompts for our guided meditation on our incredible journey!!
After Ā leading you through the relaxation we asked you to steady your mind, your heart, your breath and remember the…
First moment you heard one of our voices on the phone talking to you about the adventure ahead
New faces in San Francisco
First massage circle on the floor and the dance party in the dark ping pong room
Sex, drugs and poop
Our favorite red haired Texan, Josh
The torrential downpour, flooded streets and the crazy escapade ordering in pizza
Pimped out bus ride to the crater
Nicaraguan family sunday outing en route to Matagalpa.
Sunday lunch in a bar
Cruisin thru town in the back of a pick up truck. Arrival? Your very first host familiesThe revolution will be feminist or not at all
Where are the umpa lumpas?
The plague! Tyler locked in his room, Taylor’s midnight hospital visit
Rico Sauve
The gazelle and the lion
Cotton eyed joe!
Jello and chips. Breakfast of champions.
Loomin volcanoes and a ferry to the island
Noooot riiiiiiight nooooooow
Ryann trekking through a cowfield on one foot
Open air bamboo beds, bugs and “bungalows”
The worst dance class ever
Machetying, swailing, wood chippin, dirt hauling and SWEAT
Petey always going to get shampoo
The cow slaughter at dawn
Never ending tours
Who ate the cookies? Banana bread? Chocolate?
Endless hours of wrapping nacatamales
Marvin loves turtles
Insane amounts of baby turtles
Captain D loves the cops
There’s been a robbery on the reserve!
Twilight nursery chats
Arctic air conditioning at the fancy house
Big waves and BIGGER biggie flaps
Alfredo, man of the year!
Communal slumber party at G 22
Alfredo….Mayan heartthrob
Way too many hours in a tiny sizzling hot shuttle
The parade of dropping you all off at your host families
Freddy
A train of kids following us everywhere
Foggy tombstones and New chicken
The “short hike” to the river, waiting…and waiting…and running home in the rain
Awkward gringos banging on cups
Ben and his knife
Crafting bread animals and gorging on fresh rolls
The incredible, mind blowing performance by Taylor and Mariah
Shrimp eyeball soup for breakfast and coffee for dinner
Xela, breath of fresh air
Lookin forward to coffee and bread at 10:30
New families and cold nights
Guacamole and fireworks
Big macs and shopping at last
Real salsa classes, futbol games and epic girls nights out
20 km in one day?!
Hot sauna, cold rain, and cement floors
Mira ingeniously getting the car unstuck
A near photoshopped sunrise over the lake, clouds parting for a blazing sun
The count and his lair
Caaaalifornia girls….ZUMBA!
Gringos with forehead dots
Crystal, emerald lake
Jumping off platforms, morning kayaks and steamy little saunas
How privileged are we?
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Love conquers Fear
Anna and Taylor rockin’ it, despite Taylor’s epic sickness
Celina and Petey, casas!
Buffet feasts, hammocks, a rockin restaurant and rolling river at el Retiro
Candlelit Indiana Jones…scalin underground cliffs and jumping into blackness
River swing, tubing, shivering and leaping off a bridge
Hunger games and rooftop brunch
Endless shopping and good grub
Torn apart on a runway. Reunited in paradise.
Floating in underwater galaxies
Crazy booty dancing and earnin points!
Eels, turtles and friends
Shimmering lake lit by moon, dinner under the stars
Sun, sand, and each other in hand
Much love,
Noah and Julia