Canadian Nomad

I’ve been so busy doing so many things I have not had time to blog. I’ve been working, eating sushi, playing in golf carts, frolicking in fresh water caves, dancing in the rain, cooking incredible meals, tanning around the pool, going on hikes, fighting off tarantulas, kayaking through the canal,  and swimming in the beautiful Caribbean ocean.  So much to do on such a small, yet gorgeous island of Honduras.

The other day a group of twelve of us rented golf carts and made our way to the caves. Once we got the caves I was having too much fun driving the golf cart to want to stop right away so one of the guys and I took off in the cart. We went exploring the dirt roads and took the golf cart on roads that were 4X4ing worthy! We were doing 180s, drifting the cart and going through huge puddles.

Once we got back we hopped into the caves to cool off then all of us jumped back into our carts and made our way to Pumpkin Hill. I was trying to do some fancy reverse work and almost killed the guy, Rusty, who was sitting on the back of my cart by backing into a barbed wire fence. Oops! So he then decided he should drive, because now he doesn’t trust me. But, once we got to Pumpkin Hill Rusty started going up a steep hill and hit a stump in the ground. Which because of the angle, made us start flipping backwards down the hill. Luckily the big guy, Big G, sitting on the back of the cart jumped out and started pushing the cart back down so we didn’t fully flip. If the cart had followed through and flipped, we would have tumbled into the third cart directly behind us and all of us would have been seriously injured. But, we all got out fine and we able to laugh about it afterwards.

Later that night while working at La Pirata Sports Bar, I was standing on the patio around 3:30AM just cleaning up a bit before close. All of a sudden, this local girl walked over to where I was standing, grabbed a bottle and smashed it on the ledge right in front of me scattering glass alll over my legs and in my flipflops. She then kept the neck of the broken bottle in her hand and went back to dancing.

I walked over to the other bartender to see if he saw the incident that had just occurred. Right when I was about to talk to him he ran over to the DJ and told him to cut the music. Once the music was cut you could hear two girls yelling at each other in the corner of the patio. Before I knew it a girl, surrounded by people, was walking towards me just covered in blood holing a heap of napkins to her bloody face. The other bartender had taken the girl with the broken bottle neck out of the bar and I was taking care of the girl with the slashed face. I’ve never seen so much blood. I had to clean the blood splatter which covered most of the patio, chairs and tables. The girl who got slashed was later taken to the local doctor, she will defiantly need stitches. I had a night off after that horrifying accident. I was very thankful.

My flatmates and myself decided it would be an ingenious idea to shave Big G’s chest. Our first thought was to do a happy face, but that seemed too average. Then, we thought “Well how about a Superman symbol?”. Once we pulled up the Superman symbol to copy from we had one more great idea. A Super G symbol for Big G’s first initial.  It was a night full of fun and laughter. The next morning while walking with Big G down the street people would stop and laugh or stop to take a picture. It was great fun.

Tags: 4X4ing, Bar fight, Caribbean, Cooking, Dancing, Dancing in the rain, Fresh water caves, Frolick, Golf Carts, Hiking, Honduras, Kayaking, La Pirata, Laughing, Super G, Superman, Sushi, Tanning, Tarantulas, Utila, Working
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Kyle and I went for a walk the other night and I got attacked. I was trying to catch a couple toads that hoped across my path and I was standing in the grassy area getting Kyle to take pictures when I started getting bitten all over my feet. There were a ton of fire ants where I was standing and I guess because I stood there long enough they climbed up my pants. As I was whacking them away with my hands they got all over my hands and arms and were biting me like crazy. I almost had a melt down because I couldn’t get them all off and I was in so much pain! Once I got them all off Kyle and I continued to walk and saw a bunch of fireflies which was amazing! They looked like twinkling stars in a grassy field. Later, we sat on a bridge over the river here and looked at the stars and lightening that was lighting up the sky in the distance. It was quite spectacular. When we got back to the entrance of our place I got Kyle to give me a piggyback ride across the grass so I didn’t get attacked again. It was very kind of him to do that for me.

The next morning, Kyle and I set out to find breakfast, which just turned into a 3 hour hike but it involved so many great things. The trip began with a dog, who followed us from the first town right until the end of the trip. We stopped at a family’s house who was selling something (we had no clue what it was), though once she brought us an example, it was a popsicle-like thing and some kind of frozen juice in a bag. Kyle and I bought one of each; they were GREAT and also cooled us down on our walk. We got to the next part of town parched, so we bought some juice and I got a Pepsi. I love that they hand you the Pepsi in a bag with a straw. Once we were making our way back, still without finding a place for breakfast, we stopped at the river to dip our feet in and cool down. There were a million little minnows nibbling at our toes it was so neat! I stood in the middle of the river just letting the minnows nibble away… some of them were actually quite big, it tickled like crazy!

As we were walking back we asked a couple women sitting outside their house where to get some food, the woman who owned the place asked us to come in and she’d cook us up something! Everything was cooked over a fire stove and we played with the children after dinner. They were adorable and very interested in our digital camera. Oh, there was also a baby kitten there as well! As we went to pay, I gave the woman a 5 Lempiras tip. Her eyes widened when she realized I hadn’t made a mistake in the amount that I handed her, she was shocked that I wanted to tip her! 5 Lempiras is $0.28 Canadian. Breakfast/Lunch cost us under $7 for both of us. It was amazing that we got the chance to see directly where the money was going and it was an experience of a lifetime.

Tags: Canadian, Experience of a life time, Fire ants, Hike, Lempiras, Lunch, Minnows, Pepsi, Toads, Walk
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Learn the dances of the world See all the world wonders Climb Kilimanjaro Attend Carnival in Rio Visit Iguaçu Falls Go to the Amazon Go to the Perito Moreno Glacier Dive in Cenotes Go skydiving Go paragliding See the Great Barrier Reef Go to Timbuktu just to say I did Volunteer in Africa Go on an African Safari See a whale shark See a panda Experience Zero Gravity Heli-boarding Set foot on all 7 continents Climb Mount Aconcagua in Argentina Become Famous Partake in Japanese Tea Ceremony Attend Burning Man, Nevada Visit India Attend the Love Parade, Germany Learn to dive Visit Matchu Pitchu Go to the Galapagos Run with the bulls Ride a bull Learn to ride a motorcycle Climb an active volcano Learn to sail Visit the Nile See the Pyramids in Egypt See the iron throwing “fireworks”, China

Walk along the Great Wall of China Be in China for Chinese new year Go to Oktoberfest Join a caravan in the Sahara Ride a camel in Egypt Visit the Salt Fields in Bolivia Get married by Elvis then have it annulled (or not) See the northern lights Get a tattoo Learn to sand board Motorcycle across Canada Get something named after myself Donate blood Go dog sledding Ride a dune buggy Learn to drift ¼ mile race Live with an African Tribe Listen to the Dali lama speak Go to the Thailand Vegetarian Festival Fly in a hot air balloon Use a fire extinguisher Fire a gun Stage Dive/ Body Surf Black Water Rafting, New Zealand Go spelunking Take a submarine to the Titanic Drive a hovercraft Take a homeless person to dinner Go to Antartica Go to the Opera Partake in a gameshow Attend Mardi Gras Visit Easter Island Ride a donkey in Greece Visit the Taj Mahal Fall in love See the Terracotta Warriors Learn to wakeboard Go to a nude beach Visit the Sex Museum in Amsterdam Live Life to the fullest

Tags: Africa, Amazon, Black Water Rafting, Burning Man, Canada, Carnival, Cenotes, Dance, Elvis, Galapagos, Great Wall of China, Iguaçu Falls, Japanese Tea Ceremony, Kilimanjaro, Love Parade, Mardi Gras, Matchu Pitchu, Nile, Northern Lights, Oktoberfest, Perito Moreno Glacier, Pyramids, Sahara, Salt Fields, Skydiving, spelunking, Tattoo, Timbuktu, Titanic, Volcano, Volunteer, Whale Shark, Wonders of the World
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