Sorry that I haven’t been updating the blog – its so much easier to post quick updates on Facebook to let friends and family know I’m alive and kicking as the internet connection here is sort of frail. I thought I’d post my last few Facebook updates here for the folks without FB:

(in Costa Rica) The hostel is hot, overcrowded, bar music blaring at me right across from the window… and I will sleep like a baby tonight. Nothings going to stop that.
August 2 at 9:29pm via Facebook for iPhone.

6am start to the Nicaraguan border. Hope to be on the island of Ometepe by tonight.
August 3 at 5:12am via Facebook for iPhone.

Ometepe is incredible. More wild and beautiful than I ever imagined.
August 3 at 8:13pm via Facebook for iPhone

That’s it from me tonight. I’m spent! The trip was incredible, the border crossing just insane. Falling asleep in a hammock tonight under the stars with bugs chirping everywhere. Is this even real?
August 3 at 8:37pm via Facebook for iPhone

Awoke in the temple at 6am before sunrise, warmed up my sleepy body with gentle dance while the sun rose around us, then hiked through the rice fields with Erika to the neighbouring farm for some fresh frothy milk. Oatmeal and warm hot honey milk for breakfast. Giant papaya to snack on today. The papayas here are larger than watermelons!
Wednesday at 10:45am

a local boy hacked off then cut open a coconut with a machete and gave it to me to drink. Sadly he really is too young. But he had no shirt on which is always a bonus.
Wednesday at 6:41pm

Learnt to make ricotta cheese! There’s no fridge here so we have to get milk every day and I guess the cheese I will be grazing all night. Mmmmm!
Thursday at 11:11am

My shoestring Spanish rocks mucho gustso! I learn pronto! Buenos diaz por favor manyana.
Thursday at 3:44pm