We travel the world with carry-on luggage and backpacks, but we have room for pickleball paddles. Our travels have taken us to five continents, and on that journey, we have had a whirlwind pickleball adventure. Our pickleball odyssey began in Costa Rica back in 2020. The owner of our hotel in Tamarindo invited Michael to play pickleball. Soon enough, we…
2020 has been quite a year. Like many people, there were plenty of things that went wrong. We could dwell on those things, or we can think back on all the things that went right. When we remember 2020, the following are the things we will choose to remember: We went to Disney World! In January, before COVID, we spent…
Our family of 4 spent 6 months living in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. We looked back at our numbers to see how much it cost us to live there. We spent $20,000 or $3300 per month. We go into detail about these expenses in this post. Lodging Our lodging cost about $1,150 per month. We stayed in three different…
We said goodbye to Nicaragua and headed back to the United States. Commercial airlines are not yet flying in and out of Nicaragua, so we booked a charter flight from Managua, Nicaragua to Miami, Florida. From Miami, we flew Delta Airlines to Atlanta. We were nervous about getting on airplanes and heading back to the United States. We were not…
Lucas and Henry built a fort. They spent several weeks spending hours in the woods with their friend Tye building the fort and playing in it. Fort building is a great way to learn by playing. There are several skills you can learn from fort building. Team-building- Lucas, Henry, and Tye all had roles in building the fort. Lucas was…
We arrived in Nicaragua at the end of February. We had a flight booked to go to Mexico at the end of March. Six months later we are now saying goodbye to Nicaragua. It is bittersweet to be leaving this beautiful country, but we are excited to start a new adventure. We are flying back to the United States for…
We have been traveling now for about 9 months. One of the things we were most looking forward to about long term travel was meeting people. COVID has made meeting new people more challenging, but we have met a lot of wonderful people on our travels so far. For the last three months, the boys have been hanging out with…
We are eating well in Nicaragua. People ask us if we miss American food. We can eat just about everything here that we ate at home, so no (except Chic-fil-a and berries). We are sad when we see our friends in the US going berry picking. Berries are still hard to come by here. We did find frozen berries for…
Since we left for Central America in February the four of us have been together every day. We are not sick of each other yet, but everyone once in a while we need to have some space, and Michael and I need a date night. We have had several date nights since we have been traveling. The boys are old…
We took a road trip on a Wednesday to visit Laguna de Apoyo. About the Lake Laguna de Apoyo is a crater lake. It was formed over 20,000 years ago when a volcano imploded and filled over time with water. A chain of Volcanos runs through Nicaragua from North to South. It is located between the Mombacho Volcano and the…