La Casa de Frida Hostel
Travel Blogs from El Zonte
El Salvador- We want more!!
We left Antigua after getting bit lost on the way out, it's almost a part of our routine by now! However once we had left we passed a motocross track and turned around so Jess could check it out. I was excited to be on the road again but a bit nervous about venturing into a new country and go through another border crossing. However, the road down …
Das Ende des Surfens
... ausgeliehen und ab ins Wasser. Die Wellen kamen in einem schönen Winkel an den Strand und brachen sich ordentlich. Was möchte man mehr. Nur waren sie heftig. Drei mal versuchte ich es eine Welle zu nehmen. Jedesmal mit dem Resultat, das mich die Welle so heftig durchwirbelte, dass ich unter Wasser Purzelbäume schlug. Danach wollte ich es ruhiger angehen lassen und tauchte erfolgreich durch einige Wellen hindurch, so dass diese nicht direkt über mit zusammen brechen. Wie ...
"How's the view from YOUR hammock?"
... to the ocean at our right, surging high after the evening rains and dribbling slow by late afternoon. I can count how many eggs the lady sells at her market stall each day. And how many beers the surfers by the pool have had to drink. And how many chicks the momma hen has in tow today. All from my hammock…
From my hammock I can see fisher-women waist deep in water casting their nets in the low tide.
From my hammock I can see Mamma Rosi in her kitchen. When we ...
Surf...surf... more surf
... wine. We ordered a pizza for dinner and it was decent. That night I was out front smoking talking hookers with the night watchmen, when Carissa came out to see what I was up to. I explained what we were talking about and the guard guy got thoroughly uncomfortable talking about hookers with a girl present. I guess I was a bit surprised, but chalked it up to cultural difference. For the record, the street girls were around ...
El Zonte day 2
... down. so much so that our room sprung a leak, conveniently above my bed. So i woke up to waterboarding. The other were fast asleep so i susses out where the other leaks were and made sure everyones stuff was all dry and swapped beds. There was some cracking lighting and thunder going on outside, so i thought that i would go check it all out. Bad idea, on my way out the door closed behind me, locking me out of the room ...