After two nights downtown, we were both ready to spread our wings and leave Segundo Avenue. We thumbed through Lonely Planet and basically let their suggestions guide us. Hostel Bekuo was one of the top affordable suggestions, and again, we couldn't be happier. Off the beaten path in a beautiful neighborhood lies Hostel Bekuo - www.hostelbekuo.c...

It is ages since our last blog and you guessed it! the boat had been delayed yet again. We drove down from Vilcabamba to have another couple of days on the coast near to the port of Manta at Alandaluz where we had stayed twice before - they said it was our second home when we pitched up. Nice two days on the beach and then back to Manta. Meanwhi...

The visit back home was great and let me relax a bit after the craziness of China. Got to visit Fred Meyer and was reunited with my best pal, George George (aka, George). Just being amongst friends and family and somewhere familiar was comforting. Couldn't let myself become too complacent so off again... The trip to Costa Rica could be summed up...

Itīs odd what becomes the norm. It seems I may need to have a word with Merriam and Webster and have the defination of bed updated from "a piece of furniture on or in which to lie and sleep" to "a pile of bug-ridden cow-dung recently scrapped from the road". So it was which much Bliss that we laid our head to rest in a hotel in the Costa Rican c...

Me and Juliette spend our first Christmas together, and it was my first Christmas outside Canada. Everything was closed in San Jose except for the Chinese Resturant next door to our hotel, so we had our lunch there. We had nothing to do the whole day, so we spend the day just hanging around the hotel and planing next leg of our trip. In the even...