Blogging anniversaries, like all anniversaries in life, come with a lot of pressure–pressure to be great, to be meaningful, to be memorable. I feel it’s my duty on this, the one-year anniversary of hitting “Publish” on my very first blog post,…
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4 Highlights from 4 Days in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Puerto Viejo is a charming and chilled out beach town on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, just north of the Panamanian border. Beach cruisers are more prevalent than cars and the reggae jams that pulse from beachside bars lend it a distinctly Rasta…
Unconventional Milestones: My 100th Post & A Pura Vida Giveaway
Today is a very special day, friends! I’ve reached another exciting milestone, and a somewhat unexpected one…you’re currently reading the 100th post on The Mochilera Diaries! When this blog came to life less than one year ago in Cusco, Peru, I…
Getting Our Nature On At The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
The moment I was well enough to travel again after the nasty illness that nearly broke me in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, I was on a bus to Costa Rica, ready to forget all my woes and embrace la pura vida. Mak…
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
After our relaxing stay on Isla de Ometepe, Mak and I were ready for some action. Our next destination? The beautiful beach town of San Juan del Sur near the Costa Rican border. As you may recall from my September…
Isla de Ometepe: Beaches, Volcanoes, & Bicycles
It finally arrived. On the morning of Monday, September 15th, a full four days after my arrival to Nicaragua, my hostel in Managua received the long-awaited phone call with news that my luggage had been received at the airport and all…
Missed Opportunities in Granada, Nicaragua
My third full day in Nicaragua I was still bagless (my luggage was lost in limbo thanks to Spirit Airlines), a little sweaty, and beginning to look a bit like a wooly mammoth (razor in a carry-on? yeah right) but…
Killing Time in Managua: A Day Trip to Playa Pochomil
I like to think, as a fairly seasoned traveler at this point, that I’ve gotten pretty good at handling challenges on the road. I know that most missteps are pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things so there’s little…
Month in Review: September 2014
I can hardly believe September has already come and gone. What a crazy month it has been. I experienced just about every emotion under the sun in the last 30 days, but in nicely balanced proportions…like a graveyard soda but…
Hostel Review: The Local NY
Whilst planning my most recent trip to New York, I decided that, though I was stoked for the opportunity to revisit my old stomping grounds in Manhattan (namely the East Village and Lower East Side), it’d also be a good idea…