We are now in a family-run tourist camp, sleeping in hammocks, sharing very few toilets and hose pipes for showers which are routinely also home to large frogs, crickets, bats and anything else that can crawl or fly into the outdoor facilities. We reached Los Llanos in south western Venezuela…
Bec
Previous lives include graphic designer, trainee chef and favourite child. These days I'm living each day as it comes...otherwise known as giving up my good job, giving up my house to tenants, giving up a lot of material possessions and even giving up my cat. The future includes traveling to South America, Canada, the US and Central America to work out where next...
very violeta Mérida
/ 03/04/2013After 16 hours on a bus through three checkpoints, self-catered lunch at a toilet block on the side of the road and the final hours spent winding up and down the Andes, we reached Mérida in western Venezuela. I was hamstrung for available activities by a lack of funds due…
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/ 29/03/2013Back in South America, starting in Crackers…I mean Caracas. Even if I had been feeling up to going out and exploring on the one afternoon I had in the city, the five keys on my hostel room key ring to get past all the secure doors led me to believe…
passing time in Panamá City
/ 22/03/2013After 58 days on tour, it all closed out in Panamá City. On our way into town we stopped for a couple of hours at the Canal to see massive grain cargo ships pass through the Miraflores lock, dropping 27 feet in mere minutes. Engineering lasting 100 years come 2014…
starry nights in Santa Catalina
/ 18/03/2013The sleepy, secretive surf haven of Santa Catalina lies on the Pacific coast. Dark super-fine sand stretches in all directions around the bay where we stayed at Oasis Surf Camp. The flat sea bottom gives up smooth baby waves for several metres making it ideal for learning to surf before…