Villa Rhina Club and Mountain Resort La Ceiba

... back and have done some more research on our specific boat - I know that you can book thru Castillo tours directly and save yourself $6. AND after doing more research I found that if you book through GoToPuertoRico.com you can get the same excursion for only $65, that would have saved us $20. I guess we lived and we learned, but still had a great time regardless - and I was ok with the $85 that we paid ...

Our original intent today was to go explore Old San Juan, however when we woke up we decided that we needed to recoup from the previous night, so we decided to make it a pool day. We got ourselves ready for the pool and then made our way to Don Jose's, located on Ave. Isla Verde. Breakfast here was cheap and yummy! It was a great place to grab a "quick" bite, and I mean that ...

... all you could hear was the metal creaking and grinding and the horn that sounded exactly like a train whistle. Along the way we passed by the city, everyone piled into the backs of quarter ton trucks, through the outskirts and out towards the jungle. Soon it was the river on one side and the Jungle straight up on the other. Bumpy, but awesome ride. <br>At the lodge Isabel showed us to the dorm and then we got changed for some whitewater rafting! It wasn't like any other ...

... to dive (and which is supposed to be cheaper as the other Bay islands). We came with the idea of staying two days. One for diving and another one to go to the beach. But we had to pay almost 100 euros each of us to make just one dive...and the 4 day course was 2 hundre. So we decide to through the house trough the window, I let Amelia the money, and we did the DIVING COURSE!!! I am diving!! One of the dreams of my life!! I still cannot ...

... way to describe it would be being on a bucking bronco being tossed left, right, up and down whilst people sprayed you with salt water and the people around you were being very sick into there bags. It was rather horrendous and even the American football player next to me was suffering. Luckily it takes a lot for me to be sick on a boat but I was happy when the journey came to an end. After a short 20 minute taxi ride we were in paradise.

... in Puerto Cortez. We handed our passports in again and were told to wait on the boat. Money changers boarded, guys hawked taxis and rides to immigration...the obligatory confusing border scene. There was a poster on the boat advertising a van to La Ceiba for $25 and I decided that I would do that so I asked the captain about it and he told me who to talk to. The van goes to immigration (a 10 minute ride), stops at ...

Notes for backpackers: <br>Where to dive: I went with Captain Morgan´s because you stay on tiny, quiet, secluded Jewel Cay. You and the other divers will be the only tourists there. It´s not a party place, like most of the places on the main island. If you´ve come to dive, not party, Captain Morgan´s rocks. <br>___________________________________ _________________________ _____ <br><br>Utila is one of the Bay Islands north of Honduras in ...

... talk. But then you get there and what else can you do but squeal with delight? At least that was what I did. I was fortunate enough to have signed up for a tour that began at 9am, so I got to beat the crowd and get off the ship early in order to make the tour on time, as we got into port at 8am. Everyone else had to wait to get off until everyone on the ship had gone through customs up on the seventh deck to have your passport stamped and receive a ...

So three days ago (again I'm still trying to catch up here...) I met the captain and the first mate of the ship, BOLD. This isn't any old ship, but the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) larges scientific research vessel! We had a great time drinking beers and pina coladas and munchin' on BBQ that night. We talked about lots of stuff from who were the first people to land on Hawaii, to literature, to home brewing beer (hey they've been on a ...

... until it's not readily available. I am missing many people at home and I am already looking forward to the summer and working for camp. I am also excited about the future of this semester of not being seasick, the trips I am signing up for and the people I meet and the experiences I will have. I should go to bed so I can wake up in Puerto Rico!!! Tonight I am falling asleep to a rocky ship and crashing waves with dreams of Puerto Rico..... and of course dreams of you.......