Good day, Sitting here in a somewhat barren airport in Managua, Nicaragua just past midnight. Has it really been almost 3 months since I was last here flying to the Corn Islands? Where doe time go? A...
What’s good in your hood? I’m writing this from one of the coolest places I’ve ever been in my life… It’s an undisclosed compound in the truest sense of the word in the ...
Good day, Writing this on a day that makes me glad I opted for the later panga, it may still rain but this morning was horrendous. I am typing on a broken Toshiba laptop aka a key is missing and othe...
Good day, It’s Saturday night, time to watch a UFC fight or hit the streets in search of suds, rinse and repeat. If you’re on a diet, now is the time to cheat as you kid yourself that you...
Good day, First off let me say that they re-opened the “Happy Hut” yesterday and I couldn’t be more THRILLED! This is the real “bar” on the island now with a huge circul...
Good day, Not yesterday but the day before I made my way to Big Corn Island to sign some paperwork with a gentleman from here and we met my lawyer early on a stormy morning. Once the papers were almo...
Hello SHABL, Today I am reminiscing about my first and only trip to Southeast Asia. Cambodia, to be exact. Oddly enough, Cambodia had never been a thought in my travel-obsessed mind until the opportu...
Good day, Yours truly sits at the Sunset Shack on one of the worst days I’ve seen since arriving. The “port side” which is usually calm and relaxed has gone insane as though there w...
Good day, How art thou? Hopefully you’re doing well and about to enjoy a superb Saturday in an interesting part of the world. Please remember that wherever you’re from and no matter how b...
So-caress SHABL? Thought I’d stop with the layover talk for a while and tell you another one of my strange travel tales. This one happened last October while I was traveling around Romania for a coup...
Good day, Let us discuss the important matter of satellites aka techno gadgets shot by scientists with large sling shots into a place we know very little about called space. These stellar space camer...
Hello from the land of sand and blue seas, Let’s just dive right off the deep end and into the heart of this monster fish, shall we? I was sweating in my second floor office surrounded by scree...
Good day, The above snapper was purchased not long ago for $5US at the rate of $1 / pound, muahahah. Buying fresh fish here is incredibly easy as most days someone will have fish, it often changes bu...
Good day, It’s my extreme pleasure to announce a new feature here at SHABL that is called “Flashback Friday“… The whole point of “Flashback Friday” is to resurrect...
Good day, In a land where cotton candy clouds rain french fries on old growth forests and and people work their entire lives to have their pensions routed into bailouts of wall street bozos, isn̵...
Oh hey SHABL, from Miami! Thought I’d go ” live” today and blog about what’s happening right now rather than reporting on it later. First and foremost, I should tell you the t...
Good day, Little Corn Island where I’m living for another 2.5 weeks doesn’t have power all day and some days, it doesn’t turn on at all. The power runs from a diesel generator that ...
Good day, For a while now I’ve had a circus complete with clowns and cotton candy carelessly controlling the city inside my cranium. I’ve concluded that it’s more common in today...
Good day, Not long ago I got an email in my inbox from this education company about an infographic they made on learning English. As you know I’m in C. America and would like to learn Spanish. ...
Good day, I’m starting to get bored on the islands, not that I don’t love them just things get boring after a while, yes? Variety is the spice of life and if you love a certain dish, you&...
Good day, This photo is about the change occurring in and around Little Corn Island. Plots that were once forest now look as though they have been pulverized into plantations. Certain paths have expa...
Hello SHABL, The time has come for me to start planning my journey back to Sweden from America. I’ve got a few options that I am considering, but nothing is confirmed as of yet. I should...
Hey SHABL, When you hear “Greyhound bus”, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Ghetto? Shadiness? Halfway house on wheels? For me it has been all of the above which is why I decided that I nee...
Greetings, I’ve been busying trying to catch barracudas, to the point of doing internet research which is where I found this. Thus far have caught two of them but neither are particularly photo...
Good day, This is an update that is long overdue, when it transpired I was living in a tree fort outside Pangani, Tanzania and only had access to my iphone. As a result said I’d write it later ...
Good day, Been busy with lots of fishing, it’s crazy how you can throw a line for a week solid without a bite and then suddenly in the same spot see an explosion of activity!? There has been so...
Good day, Above is a video that recently came my way from the fine people at Jet Set Zero. It’s episode three of season eight and filmed in Chiang Mai, Thailand. They were filming and I happene...
Good day, When it rains on a tropical island, it really rains to the point of quasi scary torrential down-pour. It’s sunny once more but for the last day or so its been raining aggressively and...
Good day, Yesterday evening was sitting as I am now doing very little on the computer, one of those times you’ve exhausted any sense of productivity and have been reduced to watching inane yout...
Good day, Let us discuss the important matter of the ebb & flow of friends while traveling, it’s unlike anything else. Every friend you’ve ever had started with a common greeting and ...
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