The internet here dies every evening, so I’m getting my post done earlier today. We just finished a half day snorkeling trip, that was so so. We really wanted to swim in a location with starfish where we have been before, but our boat captain didn’t let us get out there. Not sure why. I …
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Snorkeling
We had a super fun day of snorkeling! My free diving skills are really helping, so I’m very excited that I decided to take that class. I’m still on the fence about getting some fins and a weight belt. I’ll probably see if Splash Inn will loan me a pair of fins tomorrow. Bill’s dive …
Free Diving Certification
It took me an extra day, but I passed my free diving class today. Yesterday was a little rough. It was windy and the water was choppy when we went out to do the free diving class. I did several pretty successful dives, but toward the end of class, I started to feel sea sick. …
Day 1 Free Diving
I did my first free diving class today, and it went great! I was concerned about how it would go, but I’m actually a decent free diver. I think my snorkeling background helped. I was most concerned about equalizing the pressure in my ears, which has limited how far I could dive in the past. …
Back to Roatan
Hello All! Bill and I arrived back in Roatan around 12:30pm today. We visited here last May too. We had to get up at 2:45am to make our 5am flight but overall, we had a smooth travel day. Flights lately have been terrible. A lot of them have 24 or 48 hour layovers somewhere or …
Creatures of Curacao
Hello All: It’s been several days since I did a post and now I don’t remember what I wanted to say. I started a post last night that I didn’t finish and now I can’t find the draft. We are having a fine time here in Curacao, but it’s not our most exciting trip and …
Hofi Mango
Hello All: I have not done a post for the last couple of days because I haven’t had a whole lot to write about. We are having a perfectly fine vacation, but I can’t say this is one of our more exciting ones. The water here is beautiful and clear but there isn’t much to …
Curacao from Emily – Day 2
Hello All! As you probably all saw from Bill’s post, we arrived in Curacao yesterday after a very long travel day. We were up by 2:45am and because of delays we didn’t have time to get either breakfast or lunch. We were starved and exhausted by the time we got to the hotel. We did …
Last Day
I’m finishing up my last day in Costa Rica. I’ll get breakfast in the university dining center in the morning, then head to the airport at 8am. My flight is supposed to leave about 2:20pm, and hopefully there won’t be any problems. My brother’s flight was delayed for hours and it took him almost 24 …
Spanish All Day
Well, I survived my first day at TEC! I did 7 hours today of intense Spanish, mostly about engineering and computer science. These would have been complicated conversations in English since I don’t know that much about the metaverse or semi-conductors, but they were especially challenging in Spanish. Even people here who speak really good …
Traveling with Emily! 