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Fleeing Costa Rica for Nicaraguan family life

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Right – so, once again, deployment tomorrow morning.  Last phase – and the phase that I was most attracted to orginially:  working and living in a community with the youth participants.  So, this means that I have been very lucky to be one of only 3 project managers who have been assigned to all three types of phases – plus, this mobility means that, for this phase, I get the priviledge of ‘reuiniting’ with 4 participants…2 each from phase 1 and 2.  I will be working in Nicaragua – specially, we will be travelling to a town called La Fortuna and working with the cooperative ‘Miraflor’.  La Fortuna is located in Miraflor National Park and is meant to be absolutely stunning so CANNOT WAIT.  

Here is the official Raleigh description:  The Miraflor reserve is 206sqkm of beautiful mountainous terrain with various different ecosystems, including tropical savannah, dry tropical forest and mountain cloud forest [read on]

Raleigh blog – page link

Monday, March 17th, 2008

There is a link along the side of this blog that is the page from the Raleigh blog write-up for the first, trekking phase…

a taste of pics

Monday, February 25th, 2008
cimg3660.JPGCorcovado Trail - walk from La Sirena to La Leonacimg3661.JPGThis is the walk from La Sirena to La Leona - STUNNING;[Continue reading this entry]

Bevin, Sian, & Tabitha – PM girlies before first phase deployment

Monday, February 25th, 2008
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and into the jungle

Monday, February 25th, 2008
I must admit - for the first half of my trekking phase I could have seriously been persuaded to stay on for another go.  That was until Day 10 when we tackled the infamous "Cerro Pelon" (recall, this is where ... [Continue reading this entry]

Corcovado – “The Motherload”

Monday, February 25th, 2008
The obvious hi-light of the trek was the reward of the Corcovado National Park after the gruelling middle days of the trek...YOU MUST GO HERE!  We entered in Los Patos (from Rincon; walked via La Palma and then did ... [Continue reading this entry]

alright, alright – how I survived a 250km trek

Monday, February 25th, 2008
After finally figuring out the new username situation with my travel blog I have at last had a chance to sit down and give a much needed update.  Corcovado trek was, in a few key words, absolutely:  epic, relentless, stunning, and ... [Continue reading this entry]