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 ...
West End Life
I’m a fisherman!
Sometimes on our day off we go fishing and I hand reel in a tuna. No big deal.(I haven't watched this video with the sound on yet because my speakers aren't working, so apologies in advance if my potty mouth makes an appearance. What can I say, I'm drunk and fishing on a boat.. isn't that a free pass for f-bombs?) ...
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 ...
Lazy days.
It's been a really, really nice week.I passed my dive instructor exams and spent this week doing speciality instructor courses. It was much more chill and I got some fun dives in, which I was missing like crazy. I always tell people diving is my yoga - I have a hard time getting 'zen' in my life, but as soon as I hit the water and start going down my brain finally turns off and gives me a break for 55 minutes. Someone at the dive shop was talking about underwater ...
Back to school, back to school.
As you all learned yesterday, I'm now a divemaster and already slugging away at my dive instructor course. I'm almost done! AHHHH! On October 18 I will be an instructor. Woah.Wondering what I've been up to lately?The Wifey and I have had a bit of a change in the roommate situation... we now have four more people living here! It's definitely a full house. We have a lot of fun (re: we drink a lot of what we've christened "blackout 151 rum"). We have two American guys, another ...
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 ...