San Andreas Islands

Hello friends, family and world! Done with school, sold the car (hopefully by now), quit the jobs, and ready to explore! We've traveled to South and Central America to see what we can find. NO more daily routines, just one adventure after the other - ...

Tidenes sommarferie!

... Later, Ruth, Klaus, Kyoon and Andreas arrived as well, and i was psyched to see them. UNfortunately for them, Klaus and Andreas has spent a few hours stopping at a RedCross medical station, due to intense leg pain. They had recieved treatment and ...

... like a dry creek bed winding down the mountain side and going under the road.  Our driver told us that this was the San Andreas Fault line where the Pacific Tectonic Plate and the North American Tectonic Plate meet.  Some day, this is where the ...

... harbor on the buses. It became quite hot and we were regretting wearing shoes and socks, especially when we went to the beach at San Andreas, the only white beach in Tenerife. It’s the only white beach because it is man made. The white sand had ...

... 2000m)  taking in all the lush greenery Ecuador has to offer. At the bottom we headed off to check out the San Andreas waterfalls, the largest in the whole of Equador, which were pretty impressive although you couldn't actually see them from the ...

... ; I didn't sleep for long last night, but I slept well.           Off to San Andres - I popped into a small pastry shop and picked up some breakfast.  I had difficulty ordering - I couldn't remember the word ...

... the center of Madrid and were met there by Andreas, an old Kellogg friend of Feng, his wife, and their adorable baby Jaime. Andreas quickly whisked us through some of the main Madrileño sites. What an amazingly beautiful city! We found a tapas bar in ...

... over 65 million years ago near what is now Southern Californis. Since then the land has inched north along the nearby San Andreas fault forcing the granite to the surface. Sea spray and waves slowly wear away at the exposed granite eventually creating ...

... the country and through the flooded valleys surrounded by sharp sandstone mountains, I arrived to explore the volcanoes along the San Andreas Fault line, which lead me, conveniently into Honduras. In Honduras the people, land and economy showed distinct ...

... an earthquake of amargeddon proportions once in a millennium, but really, you might as well concrete over the entire length of the San Andreas fault and build one of those double decker freeways on top. The ones where people are always crushed to death ...

... i have seen as they do at least give the impression that the animals are in an open environment by putting them on islands with moats around although typing that out makes it sound horrible! They have loads of different monkeys and primates and the flora ...

... to share a small part of David's world. Finish off the day with an excellent dinner at the Lodge in company with Andreas and Corrin.   20.01.09          Tuesday. Time to pack up for ...

... off, and the boat sets off...all very suspect!!! We get in our Dingy and head back to explore the rest of the San Blas Caribbean islands, what an amazing place to be. there are over 300 islands, some deserted, some villages etc. We anchor down between 2 ...

... nbsp; The street kids also make objects out of palm leaves, sell cigarettes and cashews and take their proceeds and buy glue. Again I met some great people, Nathan, Andreas, Toby, Alf and bumped into Mez again who had just returned from the Corn ...

... few days in south Honduras and then into Nicaragua where I'm going to stay in Granada for a day then head straight into (not literally) Lake Nicaragua to see some islands (I hear there's an island full of Monkeys somewhere) and active volcanoes ...

... in the air. Very cool optical illusion that you get from the heat waves and the flat ground. We approached one of the islands and joined a few vehicles that were already there and set to exploring this island surround by a sea of salt. The island is ...

... before we started unpacking.  First things first! The last 9 days of November are the Festival for our city's patron Saint Andreas.  It is the biggest festival of the year.  Already there is a carnival set up on the plaza and booths are ...