I have a ton of stuff to post about my recent trip to the Bahamas, but I am back in Ft. Lauderdale, sick with a kidney infection (ONE DAY after my travel health insurance ran out) and running around with a million things to do before heading home to Roatan on Sunday morning. And now I'm sitting here stuck in the house waiting for the weather to clear up, because I can't ride my scooter in the rain and today is the one day it's decided to rain during my 6 weeks in Florida. Gahhhhhhhhh!In the ...
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“Home”-sick.
I've been away from Roatan for nearly a month now. I remember being so surprised at feeling homesick after I had been there for only six weeks. I missed the comforts of home - sushi, my hula hoop, going to the movies, etc. When I look back on it now, that's understandable.But after two weeks traveling on a yacht, and now two weeks and counting hanging out in Miami with no particular return date set in stone...I'm homesick. For Roatan.Even in my own head I ...
Where in the world is Rika??
Hola from… Miami Beach..!? Yes, as I’ve previously alluded to, I am in fact in Miami right now. I’m not even in Roatan!How the hell did I end up here? Good question, long story! This might be the longest post I’ve ever written, but there are pictures, I promise.Let’s start from the beginning.If we’re all being honest here…right before Christmas, I was absolutely miserable in Roatan. I had an unpleasant personal situation that managed to infiltrate every facet of my life here (which is ...
Never let your fear decide your fate.
I'm still working on my post for tipping etiquette guide for diving in Roatan, so in the meantime I would love for you to watch this amazing video some friends of mine made. And since we all know I'm an egotistical camera whore, you will be pleased to see me in this video several times! (Watch closely in the shark dive, other diving footage, and on the yacht. Also, the last frame in the video is a green moray eel attacking me!) Thanks so much to Devin and Mark who made this ...
A night out in West End.
Hey. You're cute. Wanna come out with me tonight?For the record, West End is small. Like, REALLY small. Like a 1-mile road along the beach and that's the entire village. So we have to make a lot of our own fun here.This aerial photo shows basically the whole place (check out the source link for more info about West End).(source)I know you're all dying to know what I do with my one night off a week. So here it is, in photo format, with the tamest photos I was comfortable ...
Roatan Month 2 Roundup
Here's me being on top of things for the month 2 roundup! October 11th marks two months that I've been living here in Roatan. This is officially the longest I've ever been away from home (or "home"...since I don't have one anywhere else now).This is what month two brought...- I gave you some insight on what I do day to day in my life here- I got homesick for the first time in my life- I shared my feelings on how far I've come in the last year ...
Day to day.
I have sat down to write this three times now, and have come up with amazing excuses such as washing the dishes, sitting on the couch, and reading the physics chapter of my divemaster book to avoid it. I just keep thinking that I should wait for something interesting to tell you all about. Does anyone really want to know what I do every day here, even when it's not crazy and wild?Of course! That's why you're following along, isn't it? What happens when you leave the cubicle behind and move ...
Roatan Month 1 Roundup
Forgive me for stealing an excellent idea from my travel blogging idol Alex in Wanderland.... may I present to you, month 1 roundup!Now, the idea of a roundup is to summarize all my posts from the month into a neat little package of links so I (and you!) can quickly see what's gone on this month. However, I have failed miserably at keeping this blog updated since I've been here, I don't have much to recap in that sense....but I will let you know what's been happening in point form to ...
I’m really here.
I remind myself of that pretty much every day. I'm really here. I finally did it. And it's going just fine!Before we get started here, I'd like to encourage you to check out a couple blogs that friends of mine are writing:Kelsey at Get Fit. Be Married. is writing the cutest blog of all time about her recent engagement and wedding planning/fitness goals. She even gave me an awesome shoutout in her very first post. I miss seeing her at work every day and this has been a ...
Disconnected.
I've been trying to write this for a few days now, but time gets away from you easily here. That, and I still haven't managed to get my hands on a 3G internet stick yet. Always "mañana" at the store. Hopefully this week.So I've arrived and had a ridiculous start to my time in West End, I managed to somehow get absolutely blackout drunk the first night (see photo below regarding my arrival on the board at a local bar). Oops. I don't know how I went to the dive shop the next day for my first ...