The charter airline we travelled on stopped at Managua, Nicaragua before continuing on to Liberia, Costa Rica. Our plan was to go to Nicaragua - air only. But for whatever reason there were no air only seats available to Managua. There were seats for Liberia, but not Managua. The answer to the previous question would be too crazy to even try and explain. Anyway, in 2001 the world of airline travel had not yet gone crazy. So, Elenka and I bought return tickets to...

Ellen and I picked up our four-wheel drive Suzuki at Daniel Obuder International Airport outside Liberia in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica, just after 8:00 a.m. We had extensively studied our planned 300-km coastal journey to the tip of the Nicoya Peninsula. On route to the coast you pass through the little towns of Filadelfia and Belen before reaching the cut-off at Santa Cruz. From this point the real journey begins. You put your vehicle in four-wheel driv...

Returned from Hawaii. 

Ellen and I flew with Jim and Mary non-stop to Honolulu. The following morning we flew to Kauai, stayed at a nice semi-detached type place and did the craziest damn walk up mountain. An airplane was flying around way below where we stood, atop the bloody thing. From there we flew to the Big Island. This is where we stayed at the artist's house, outside the town of Volcano, that was covered in windows. The house, which was relatively new, was like an echo ch...