Around the world » Central America 2007

450′ of Snow in Steamboat

Bérna — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:12:00 +0000

STEAMBOAT POSTS RECORD BREAKING CHAMPAGNE POWDER® SNOW SEASON

With more than 37 feet (11.5 m) of Champagne Powder® snow this winter, the Steamboat Ski Resort will finish the 2007/2008 season in record fashion, breaking its previous season snow record of 447.75 inches set in 1996/1997.

And We ARE Here!!!

c u soon with the upcoming trip to mexico and South America!!!

Beach to Snow

Bérna — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:11:00 +0000

The BIG day… We move to winter!!!
With all our diving gear we take the direct flight to Denver, Colorado where some, hopefully, good snow will be waiting for us.

Diving Tajma Ha and Chikin Ha

Bérna — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:59:00 +0000

Finally-we-made it do go diving a Cenote with el Dengue, an old friend from my IDC, I decide to take them to Tajma Ha and Chikin Ha, two cenotes that are not so famous among cavern divers but are definetly worthed the visit!!! we had 2 really good dives! and lot of fun!

Beach Day

Bérna — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:58:00 +0000

Today there is finally wind in playa… So we hope Sarah might get to kitesurf a bit… “unfortunately”, wind means also that Mickey has to work with his kite students… so we just hang out on the beach and enjoy the sun… anyway we’ll be back!!!

Diving Gran Cenote and Dos Ojos

Bérna — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:56:00 +0000

Being a diver in Yucatan and not going to the Cenotes would be almost a capital sin so I took Sarah for some dives… first we drove to Tulum to go to Gran Cenote. After a great dive, we jumped in the car and after a quick check of Cenote Calavera we drove to Dos Ojos, one of the most beautiful and visited cenotes. Although it was getting dark, Sarah loved it! and I was suuuuper happy!

Cheers Marco

Merida – Playa

Bérna — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:55:00 +0000

So So, we’re getting close to our last stop of our awesome trip… Playa del Carmen. After a slow morning in merida we try to take a bus that does not exist and after some running around we are moving… the 4 hour trip is confortable (yes, mexican busses are definitly another class) and i’ve plenty of time to think about what I want to show to / do with Sarah in Playa (for the ones that do not know, I lived in playa 5 months last summer). Well it turns out that there is a lot that I want to show her, foremost Bars, Restaurants and Cenotes.
As we get to playa we go to hotel moms get a room and go to la famiglia for a REAL PIZZZZA!!! mmmmmm yummmy, this Italian immigrants are tooo cool! After the superb meal, we go to la ranita where, guess what, I meet some old friends, too cool, exactly as if I left yesterday!
cheers Marco

Uxmal and Merida

Bérna — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:54:00 +0000

Caye Caulker – San Pedro – Corozal – Chetumal – Merida

Bérna — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:29:00 +0000

LOOOOONG trip today… we first wanted to go to Belize city and then bus to Merida, but sitting at the dock after 2 days of rain and being only 30 min from “La isla bonita” (san pedro … remember the Madonna song?) made us change our plan… we went to san pedro spent couple of hours swimming and on the beach then 2 h boat ride to Corozal then bus to the border, walk over the omnipresent bridge, bus to Chetumal, horrible super expensive pastas and finally night bus to Mérida… well we actually wanted to get off earlier but the bus was to confortable and we missed our stop…

Rain and chill in Caye Caulker

sarah — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:21:00 +0000

oh, well… Caribbean doesn’t always mean sun… but being in Caye Caulker in a rainy day is a really relaxing thing… you basically don’t do anything!

Diving the Blue Hole

sarah — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:19:00 +0000

We had signed up to dive the magical and famous Blue Hole (don’t worry, if you are not a diver, you won’t know it!). It was a 2 hour boat ride to get there, so I took my motion sickness pills. I was little anxious of the pills effect plus the deep dive and I felt myself pretty high but I guess this the good attitude if you have 10 sharks surrounding you. I found them really beautiful in this dark blue water ( yeah it is dark at 42m deep!). There were Bull and black tip sharks. Not bad. We then stopped on a protected island for the lunch break. The weather was horrible and it was pretty cold. We saw lots of birds called bubbies, with red throat that work like a chewing gum bubble when they want to flirt with femals… The next 2 dives were really nice. Wonderful colors, lots of fishes and sponges. The ride home was long and agitated, but it was worth it.