Eating on Utila
Ok, so now you’ve arrived on our little island. Where’s some good food? People know me for my sometimes blunt honesty, and we’ve lived here for 7 months so I’ll be perfectly honest again: Don’t expect haute cuisine. Most food is just average, some is quite good, but you won’t find food here that knocks your socks off. Unless you’ve spent a LOT of time in Central America away from places...
Visiting Utila
When one sees advertisements about Utila, even though they are very rare, a common phrase associated with it is “The way the Caribbean used to be.” I don’t think truer words have ever been printed. Utila is part of the Bay Islands of Honduras, the others being tourism and cruise ship hotspot Roatan and underdeveloped, seldom-visited Guanaja. I’ll be doing a Roatan/Utila comparison post soon as they are 2...
The Year That Didn’t Suck
Around this time last year I wrote an article where I got personal and shared why I was looking forward, quite eagerly, to 2011. In that post I proclaimed 2011 to be the Year of Adventure. Did it live up to its name? Well, if you’ve been reading my posts before today you might have your own answer already formed. As a new year approaches, though, I tend to reflect over the current one. The last few years I’ve been more...
Living Better With Less
Before we left the States to begin our new life, one of my minor concerns was how I would handle living long-term in third-world countries. I’ve visited them before, even spent 3 months in Ecuador, but there’s a big difference between spending a couple of weeks or months somewhere and living there for possibly years. I wasn’t worried about Tigger as much because children seem to adapt well to their environment and...
Our 6-Month Mark!
I’ve had to double check the math a few times just to make sure it was accurate because it just doesn’t seem like we’ve been gone for 6 months already. Partly because this lifestyle feels so natural to us that the transition has been surprisingly easy. As you probably know we began our new lifestyle (can’t really call this a “trip”) with Cozumel, Mexico. We loved it there, and Tigger showed amazing...
