Falling in Love with the Road in Peace Corps

The ocean's never looked so good

A long day of hiking and a cold, shitty beer

Hey yo

Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're, well, the vulture that electrocutes itself on a high tension wire.

Panama you're oh-so-close

Nicaragua to Panama: 14 days

Luquillo looks happy to self propel

The cows don't but, being from the campo, they probably got drunk the night before

Rio Frio

We need to make good time.  Colby has no idea we're coming.

Hiking on a wing and a prayer and a vanilla milk

I call this one "Morning Mist"

Self defense training on the road from Colonia Puntarenas to Canas (pre pepper spray).

Family's woodshed in Tilaran.  We stopped in a store for a beer and then had dinner to decide where to tie up our hammocks.  I told James we should go back to that store because the clerk had friendly eyes and I had a good feeling about her.  She didn't know us at all and we were two crazy, stinking gringos but she directed us to her house and had her young daughter show us where to tie up.  Never happens on a bus.

The volcanos of the Zona Norte

Nothing goes together like walking and religion.  And beer.

Tent hammocking on the beach

Sometimes you just need to climb to the top of the highest hill to see what's out there.

Luquillo's first self propel.  Little guy had no idea what lay ahead.  No surprise here, I ended up carrying him a mile home.

Independence Day

Rio Frio flooded and we went walking through it.

He's his daddy's little mariner.

6 reasons not to throw away "garbage"

Where vanilla milk comes from.

Fruit I grew in my yard.

 

Sometimes your best inventions are....(that's supposed to be a kiosk made out of recycled plastic bottles). 

My 2 liter Coke bottle cilantro planter.

A little hanging planter I made out of a few gourds.

When you don't have a catcher, you use a pallet.  When you don't have a bat, you find a stick.  When you don't have a ball, you crumple up some paper, shove it in a sock, and wrap it in Costa Rican duct tape.

Biking the beach.

More beach tent hammocking.

An earned sunset after a self propel from Liberia to Parque Nacional Santa Rosa (a bus extraction may have been involved as well).

-Mick-