This morning was the beginning of diving with Karl. Karl comes down from Amsterdam to Curaçao for three months to take people diving. Karl does a good job and he wanted to work on my breathing and buoyancy. Yesterday they had me on a regular tank and Peter said it was a 45 minute dive …
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Diving Curaçao
Today was my first day diving. It is an improvement over snorkeling but just slightly. There are more fish to see but that was about it. I did see part of a crab. Still no turtles, octopus or stingrays. It does take time to get set up for the dive, I have to fill out …
Short post with pictures
Howdy everyone, we had a relaxing day today. Spent some time this morning visiting Hofi Mango. Hofi Mango was a plantation that grew sugarcane to make rum and Mangos. Hofi Mango has the only sugar mill on the island, Curaçao isn’t good for growing sugarcane. Mangoes do grow well, they taste good too. They have …
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 …
Curaçao
Yesterday we went to the capital city here and walked around a little and had lunch. It was very touristy. It is a port city for cruise ships and they seem to cater to that crowd. Restaurants were not as plentiful as I expected. They did have Subway, Pizza Hut and KFC. There are a …
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 …
The storm didn’t stop us!
We had quite the day already! We were up 2:45 this morning after light sleep wondering if we were going to get snow delayed. We were fortunate that our plane made it to St Louis last night around midnight so it was there this morning for our flight. Flights that were cancelled or delayed were …
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 …
Costa Rica Technological University
Yesterday was our last full day in Manuel Antonio, and essentially, my last day on vacation. We all took the day kind of easy. I swam a lot in the pool where I met a lovely family from Barcelona and a young couple from Los Angeles. She was an ER surgeon and he was a …
Traveling with Emily! 