I am spending the summer in Brigden, Germany with my boyfriend Stephan. Brigden is a neighboring municipality of Gangelt and is located in western Germany on the Netherlands border.

Stephan is a German officer in the Air Force. He is assigned to the NATO Airbase and is a Tactical Director on the AWACS. You can [...]

Hello Everyone,
Some of you may have wondered what happened to me this summer (specifically my mom).  It was a really busy summer with all kinds of cool activities and I did most of my blogging as Utterli posts. Utterli is cool because it allows me to use my phone and do what I call micro-blogging [...]

It is New Years Eve and we packed up our belongings and said goodbye to Ometepe. The first stop was the ferry back across lake Nicaragua. It was a beautiful day and the view of the volcanoes was terrific.
Crossing Lake Nicaragua in route to Grenada from psyan on Vimeo.
We are on our way [...]

Here is my accommodations in Ometepe, Nicaragua. We are on an island in the middle of lake Nicaragua. Lake Nicaragua is the largest fresh water lake in Central America. We will be staying here for two days.
Ometepe, Nicaragua from psyan on Vimeo.
I soon found out that we had a family of monkeys living in [...]

One of the fun things to do in Costa Rica is to visit the Cloud Forest of Monteverde and go zip-lining with your friends. My GAP gang got up early and headed out. It was an absolutely gorgeous day. After we got all geared up (harness, helmet, and gloves) we set out for our first [...]

Today we headed for Monteverde (the cloud forest) Costa, Rica. Almost immediately on our journey we ran into some roadside creatures. I have absolutely no idea what these creatures are called. If you know, please leave a comment below!
Roadside Critters from psyan on Vimeo.
We loaded onto boats and headed across a human-made lake that is [...]

When I went to bed Christmas night it was drizzling. I woke in the middle of the night to pouring rain. It down poured buckets of rain all night long. We woke up in the morning and it was still raining hard. We got picked up by the local guide to go white water rafting [...]

Our second day started with a 7:30 departure from San Jose and headed north to La Fortuna and Aranal volcano. Deciding where to sit in a 12 passenger van with 12 people traveling is always tricky. There are only a limited number of window seats. I climbed all the way to the back [...]

I woke up way too early this morning in order to catch a flight from Phoenix, Az to San Jose, Costa Rica. The Phoenix airport was packed at 5am with last minute holiday travelers. My flight to Houston and onto Costa Rica wasn’t as bad as it could have been, besides the 5 year [...]

I have started packing for my Central America jaunt. I leave the morning of Christmas Eve. I am going to attempt to blog while I am backpacking through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. I believe I have all the essentials for creating a good blog (illustrated in the photo below).

Blogging necessities when backpacking through Central [...]