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El Salvador: My Trip Write Up and Tips
Travel to El Salvador: It’s a place where grimy surfers voluntarily disappear barefoot on black sand beaches for cheap. It’s the type of place that’s getting harder and harder to find. You can order spicy chicken or fish under a thatched roof beach shack. The cook might chase your yard-bird or a fisherman might wrestle in pacific treasures into the boat that morning. It’s bubbling turquoise foam at your feet while the black sand sticks to you like Oreo cookie crumbs. If palm trees, quiet colorful towns, and ungodly amounts of papusas sound enticing, then El Salvador is for you. Mind Open to the New This is an up and…
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The 9 Top Beaches in Antigua+ My Secret Spot
What drew me to Antigua was the turquoise water on it’s 365+ beaches. That’s a lot of beaches for an island that is only 14 miles long and 11 miles wide. Believe it or not, most of the beaches on the island are inaccessible either because they are covered by miles of thorny unruly brush or are blocked by gated communities and resorts. Luckily, locals in Antigua will tell you that all beaches on the island are public. However, I did find that there are some security guards who will turn you away at gated communities because they don’t play by those rules. With the world shut down due to…
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Rastafarians, Scared of Snorkeling, and the Embodiment of Jerk Chicken: Jamaica, Where Things Went Wrong
I could do this. Easy. Laid Back. Island Time. Jamaica. After all, I’m the girl who will go almost anywhere, try almost anything, eat almost anything. But I’m still not fearless. Sitting at home at my kitchen table, I was the one who had decisively stated that I was going to Jamaica to face my fear of the water. Wind whipping through, what at the time felt to me like my effortless beach hair, but otherwise in pictures looking like my, my hair is stuck to the side of my face hair, I looked out into the infinite turquoise Caribbean. Chickens ran beneath my feet. A German Sheppard jumped into…
