I’m currently going through my expenses for March 2012 in Google Spreadsheet. I figured I’d share it here for those curious how much it cost to travel long term.
I’ve been quite lazy and been eating out more than I should be. Looking at my daily food expense breakdown, I’ve been spending between $5 – $24 a day on food, which is a pretty wide range. I told myself last time I did …
I’m currently writing an application that uses XSLT to change the output style of the data from XML to JSON and I needed the .xslt file hosted somewhere. Because I’m feeling lazy right now I figured I’d just upload the .xslt file to my WordPress blog and point my code there. I got the following error when I tried to upload it in the WordPress Media library:
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Since many backpackers mainly go to Utila to scuba when they visit Honduras, I’m assuming that many of them who are heading to Nicaragua will take a similar route I took. I’m hoping this post will be helpful to those planning their trip with the same route.
I took the 6:20 AM ferry from Utila (it was actually more like 7:00 AM as it was late) and arrived in La Ceiba around 8:00 AM. From …
While I was in Guatemala I met a lot of travelers heading to Honduras, mainly to Utila in the Bay Islands to scuba dive or learn how to.
Utila is one of the cheapest places (if not, the cheapest) to dive or learn how to dive, making it very popular with backpackers. Almost everyone I met who has done diving before absolutely loves it. This made me very jealous as I really wanted to try …
Northwest of Lake Atitlan is a city called Quetzaltenango, or “Xela” (from the Mayan name “Xelaju”) for short. This city in Guatemala is quite popular for language students as the classes are cheap and many schools provide a homestay option with a Guatemalan family to really immerse yourself with the local culture and forces you to use what you learn.
I went with a school near the central park called Utatlan. The tuition is …