March 19, 2019 Today we went out for our second day of diving to finish our PADI open water dive certificates. We did two more dives, the last one being another shipwreck. This was our deepest dive going down to 60 meters where we could swim underneath the ship. It was super awesome. We were…
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Day 43 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 18, 2019 Today was my birthday and I couldn’t imagine a better way to spend it. I watched a beautiful sunrise over the water, and Mike and Kellee were very sweet and made some birthday brownies. We took the 11am water taxi into town and headed to the dive shop. Taylor opted out of…
Day 42 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 17, 2019 Today we woke up and spent the morning hanging out and watching all the fish swim around the house. A free water taxi is offered to go to town every day at 11am and return at 2pm. We took the taxi into town and explored some more and got some pizza to…
Day 41 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 16, 2019 Today we packed our stuff from hostel Mamallenas, and I went to greet my friends Mike and Kellee at the little airport in Bocas. It was super exciting to have friends come and visit us on our journey. They got to town and we explored a little and got some groceries and…
Day 40 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 15, 2019 Today was our first full day in the beautiful Bocas del Toro, Panama. We walked around the little town and explored. We found a nice beach (or so we thought) and hung out for a while. What we didn’t realize at the time was while at that beach, we were literally almost…
Day 38-39, Guatemala to Panama
March 13-14th, 2019 Today we start our journey to Panama where we are meeting my friends from WA for the week. We got up early to catch an 8am shuttle from San Pedro, GT to Guatemala City where we fly out of. Being nervous of any road delays, we gave ourselves ample time to get…
Day 37 – San Pedro, Lake Atitlan, GT
March 12th, 2019 Today is our last full day in Guatemala. We leave tomorrow to fly to San Jose, Costa Rica and then take a shuttle down to Bocas del Toro, Panama where we are meeting my friends from Tacoma, WA. I started my day at 3:30am when I got up to go do a…
Day 36 – San Pedro, Lake Atitlan, GT
March 11th, 2019 Today was a rest and chill day for us. It was very exciting that this hostel had a hot shower. We have had few hot showers on this trip so far. I spent most of my afternoon around the pool. B got caught up on some homework and we just hung out. …
Day 35 – San Pedro, Lake Atitlan, GT
March 10th, 2019 We had our last breakfast with Bilma and Jorge, and said our thank you’s and goodbyes. We arranged for another shuttle to pick us up and take us to San Pedro on lake Atitlan where we are going to spend our last few days in Guatemala. Our next stop is Panama where…
Day 30 – 34, Xela, GT
Marth 5th-9th, 2019 We spent the next 5 days doing our Spanish class and staying with Bilma and Jorge. We each had our own private instructor and would walk to school (10 min) every morning after breakfast. We would be done by 1pm where we would go back to the house for lunch and then…