Before I traveled to Costa Rica, I knew absolutely nothing about the country, culture, or customs. I discovered there weren’t too many cultural differences, but there were definitely a few customs that were nothing like my home country! Although one was kind of difficult to accommodate to, they all gave me a new perspective on…
My wife and I are avid travelers and love to integrate with different cultures and mingle with locals. There is one exception to this rule that we don’t enjoy and that’s when foreign countries cater to party animal tourists. On a cruise out of California we decided to get off at the first port in…
“My first time out of my home country was to Belize. As part of that trip, my husband and I volunteered at a bamboo farm about an hour outside of Belize City. We began by taking a bus to our destination where we were dropped off at the end of a dirt road. As this…
“Our first stay in Mexico was a month-long venture in Cozumel, a small island in the south-east end of the country. We had the opportunity to rent an Airbnb while staying there for the full month in a small residential area of the island, not too far from the shops and beach access. While we…
“My wife and I coordinated with my dad and his family to go on a weeklong cruise to Central America out of California. It was an absolute blast and I’ve been jonesing for another cruise ever since. There was a unique experience I had when we got off in Puerto Vallarta for a day trip…
Playa del Coco was a beautiful place and very, very relaxing. It was part two of my wife and I’s test to determine whether we wanted to live like nomads, wandering from country to country, or if we wanted to put roots down somewhere and travel occasionally. Though we only stayed for a month and…
Elisha Baker recently traveled outside her home country for her first extended stay last summer 2017. At the time, Ben and I were living in Cozumel, Mexico and she came to join us for a week. Prior to this trip to Mexico, Elisha had visited Mexico on a day trip over the border. “I wanted…
“I went to Haiti a month and a half or two months before Scotland. I did a humanitarian trip to Haiti and I loved that, if I could afford it I would probably go every year. I still want to go back, but we’re planning other trips so my husband keeps saying, ‘you can’t go…
“One of the sketchiest things I’ve ever done abroad was night snorkeling in Belize. My wife and I paid these two guys we’ve never met from a local company to take us out at the middle of the night into a distant part of the ocean where no other boats were and way beyond my…
“We were living and working in Puerto Vallarta for a month in 2017. Each weekend we would spend the days on the Playa Los Muertos beach at one of the many restaurants. Every day we were there, we would see people parasailing over the ocean being towed by an old looking motorboat. We had never…