Tag Archive for Central America

Mariachi Day: The Annual Holiday Observed by Hardly Anyone

The burden of existence for a holiday is one person celebrating it once a year. Mariachi Day is a holiday I celebrate annually with whomever I can convince to take the day off life and join me in a horse drawn carriage to meet a Mariachi band—Los Principes—In San Felipe, Guatemala. Los Principes are the direct…

Bike Riding Adventure on The Island of Ometepe

I reminded myself to be present in a moment firstly, and to film a moment secondly. I was not here to write a story about Ometepe, I was writing a story about Ometepe because I was here. Biking on The Island of Ometepe: Crappy Bikes + Crappy Roads = Flight The Island of Ometepe in Nicaragua was…

On The Road to Nicaragua

Travel is a mentality. 19 hours in an overnight bus begins as they tend to in Central America,my 11:30pm bus out of Guatemala City is cancelled and my departure time is moved to 4am. There are unforeseen delays, inexplicable and at no point, not even at a change of bus in El Salvador, am I given a physical…