by Sarah Gallo | Sep 12, 2015 | Romania
After a night of tossing and turning on a sleepless overnight bus, we arrived in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. We wanted to couchsurf through the majority of our trip, so we decided to start in Romania with Petri! His lovely girlfriend, Andrada, offered to pick us up from the...
by Sarah Gallo | Jul 30, 2015 | Colombia, South America
From Medellín, take a bus from Terminal Sur to Armenia for 41,000 pesos. Once in Armenia, take a minibus to Salento for 4,000 pesos; it takes about 45 minutes. If you’re headed to Salento, you absolutely must stay at La Serrana – my favorite hostel/campsite in...
by Sarah Gallo | Jun 15, 2015 | Central America, Costa Rica
Everyone I’d spoken to about Costa Rica said that I must head to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca. Even though it was very out of the way from Dominical (you have to go through San Jose despite the fact that they look close on the map), we decided to make the trip, and we...
by Sarah Gallo | May 31, 2015 | Central America, Nicaragua
To get from Playa Maderas to Isla Ometepe proved much easier than it looked on paper. First, we decided to take the 30 minute shuttle back to San Juan del Sur to wander the city a bit. The trek on the beach back to the shuttle outside Los Tres Hermanos proved brutal...
by Sarah Gallo | May 30, 2015 | Central America, Nicaragua
San Juan del Sur is known as party-central for Nicaragua. Since neither Philip nor I are big partiers, and “Sunday Funday” sounded unappealing, we decided to skip out on the nightlife in San Juan del Sur itself and headed to Playa Maderas instead, a remote beach about...