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Adventures in Central America
 

Central America by the Numbers

This is a post I’ve really been looking forward to writing and so I’ve saved it until the end. This will be my last blog post here. If you’re still reading this, thank you so much. I really appreciate all of the feedback and encouragement that I’ve gotten over the past couple months and I’ve had a ton of fun writing. The support from each of you has been a huge deal to me and I’m so grateful for it. Hope to see you all soon!

  • Days spent abroad: 86
  • Days since I last saw a hot water faucet in a shower: 86
  • Pictures taken: 1973
  • Countries visited: 3
  • Minutes on television: 7
  • Days in Barra Honda: Not nearly enough (18)
  • Bad sunburns: 0 (Yay me!)
  • Taxi rides where I was proposed to by the driver: All of them
  • Longest bus trip: 24 hours (Panama City, Panama to Managua, Nicaragua)
  • Machetes wielded: 2
  • Americans I celebrated 4th of July with: 4
  • British people I celebrated 4th of July with: 5
  • Cumbia songs danced to: Too many
  • Percentage of meals that included rice and beans: 90
  • Ticos I met who have lived in my hometown: 1
  • Birthdays celebrated: 1
  • Words written on this blog: almost 30,000
  • Ziplines…zipped(?): 12
  • Volcanoes visited/photographed: 4/8
  • Monkeys spotted: 63,935,529 (approximately)
  • Times you’ll have to hear about Barra Honda when talking to me over the next several months: Now’s a good time to buy stock in Duct Tape

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