So I have been kinda busy recently...

Hey family and other feline friends! I have been running and diving for quite some time so I apologize for not filling in on the good stuff since the Lago Atitlan adventure. I am currently in Utila, which is part of the Bay Islands in Honduras. A small-medium sized island known for inexpensive Diving Schools and I have been sucked into the black hole of romanticized underwater salty skinned life. I discovered a love that I never dreamed possible especially since I never imagined myself to want to learn scuba diving until a friend back in Antigua, Dawn from Edinburough, Scotland told us all about how wonderful it is and inexpensive too. So that being over a month ago I had time to let that sit and multiply in its appeal until the three muskateers really considered it and after spending a few days in Copan Ruinas a town 10km from the Honduran/Guatemalan border. Where we were kind of stuck because of a friend, Aurelia who doesn't have a real bank in Switzerland and therefore had no way of getting in contact to find out why her card wasn't working and she also didn't want to spend the three dollars a minute to call the information line. Seeing the ruins of Copan was awesome although i was not feeling up to par and we went to the most amazing hot springs, Las Juagares Aqua Thermales, for Jamie's 24th Birthday. It was beautiful and remote and had a mystical quality where we thought we were transported to another time and place. Then we just were chillin' and waiting making a joke of the whole experience and always talking about how we can't wait to come back to Copan after we travel a bit more, but then we finally left.

Next off was Tela, a carribean beach town with lots of Negrofinos and my first sight of the other side of the ocean world, one in which I had never seen with my own eyes. It didn't look that different from the Pacific Ocean, but I was just glad to be by the ocean again and the entire time we were travelling from Antigua onward I was back in the world of Harry Potter and loving Hogwarts School and all the magic, mystery, and mayhem that goes with it. We loved the ocean and the day we arrived and crossed the down town street Renato's Circus went through the town. A caravan of 6 tigers, camels, llamas, zebras, clowns, elephants, horses, and acrobats paraded as if we were back in the day when our parents and grandparents got to witness this sort of wonder. We felt blessed and thrilled cause we were going to go to a circus, which we did and it was amazing and really upsetting. I say this mainly because of the animals that were in captivity and watching their wild spirits being trained and tamed was not cool and I wanted to leave at times. We stayed and watched it bringing along a young boy cause we had two for one tickets and he loved it and was clapping along with us the entire time. Besides the circus Tela was beach, food, beer and ice cream time and we enjoyed ourselves and felt great about the whole experience.

Next off was Utila, a early morning bus ride to a packed taxi with a sweet Chilean couple, to the Utila Princess fairy and by the afternoon we had arrived on the small charming island. Shauna was feeling sea sick and I was feeling excited, while Jamie was chillin' and down to go hunt us a diving school with Alton's and Utila Dive Center as the most highly recommended and the biggest and most established as well. So after an hour and a half of wandering and listening to the same shpeals we decided to go with Alton's along with a new friend Lucia from Los Angeles, originally from Beunos Aires. I had a wonderful cool dude like instructor, Art from Prescott, Arizona and I knew right away that I was gonna love scuba diving.

There is nothing I can think of to describe what it is like to float underwater, breathing borrowed air from a tank and learning how to establish your buoyancy is like flying through space except their is life. Soo much beauty of existence, for with out the ocean and it's complex web of life we humans would not exist. I feel that I have never fully appreciated the ocean even with living by the sea my entire small in the scheme of things 26 years of life. Now I love mama Ocean and riding on her in the boat on our way to the dive site or even just sitting on the dock and watching the sunset or sunrise or the calmness of the bay or the moonlight shining over the tranquil windy song sea. In a period of 10 days I went to never doing more than snorkeling and a few years in the pacific from being a kid and playing as well as a teenage boy who loved to go Kneeboarding with my friends. Now I am PADI Open Water Diver Certified along with my PADI Nitrox Cert. and NAUI Advanced Water Diver Certification. I am hungry for more and could see myself staying out here and learning Diver Rescue and then going for my Dive Master title so that I could teach people and get jobs in all the tropical places around the world as a diving teacher and having the ability to go diving nearly anywhere around the world. Luckily the universe was not giving me the all signs point to go for it and after my high of scuba has worn off a bit I have decided at this time to continue on with my journey with my friends and that i can always become a dive master some other time and that the money spent on travelling will be just as amazing as learning even more about the skills and adventures of underwater flight!!!

It has truly been a blessing for me to be on this life dream journey, living out my fantasy childhood legend of Indiana Jones exploring ancient civilizations while mixed in with the present modern day civilization all the while seeking the balance while riding the metaphysical magic carpet ride known as the life of El Boogie. This I have decided is my first chosen nickname, well at least in this incarnation instead of L-boogie it is El Boogie, which translates to The Boogie cause I love to get down and funky and rock the turntables occasionaly or at least beat box it up. With the blessings, prayers, and support of my family and friends I continue forward to the next great adventure full of the unknown and unplanned. We leave in two days to go White Water River Rafting, which I have never done as well and then off to Lago Viajo (sp) a lake that we can not swim in but apparently it is very beautiful and has some bomb fish. Then possibly the capital for a minute and may be my friends village from Santa Cruz that is small and beautiful. After that we are off to the untold beauty of Nicaragua and a bit cheaper as well I hear. Alright I know this is not a lot for a 3 week hiatus from writing, but I gotta go the ocean calls. Love ya all, mean it!!! Blessings to all of you and dream big and remember DO or DIVE.