So I'm sitting here at work (I work in a diving equipment shop), listening to the White Stripes, thinking of Tina who has moved to Argentina with her great boyfriend Leonardo whom she met in Nicaragua, and I can't help but marvel at where life takes us sometimes. After work: I'm going diving. After diving: I might go on one of Gina and I's great adventures out to the bush. Introduction: Gina is another crazy wild soul such as myself...we get along ridiculous...

So Tina and I are both officially Advanced Open Water certified. We arrived in Utila over a week ago and seem to have found ourselves in this crazy vortex that won't let us leave, not that we're trying real hard. We came here with our three gringo friends that we picked up at Finca Ixobel: Jeff, Matt, and Caileb, also known as Kujat. The first night we got here (two Thursdays ago) we were all just so happy to arrive at Utila that we went a little crazy and did ...