Portland-based Boots-N-All wants to know your travel resolutions for 2012. Mine are a little tricky because I’m 99% sure I’m going on the longest trip of my life, but I don’t yet know where. So please . . . suggest some destinations where I can be sunnier than home and live inexpensively.
I’m currently thinking 1-3 months in Mexico, Central, or South America. If I go, my resolution is to be a Spanish student, informally out of need, and formally for structure. I’ll have the luxury of time away from my job, and it would be quite easy to lie in a hammock for 90 days and nights. An immersion program would be a good challenge. So that’s my contingent resolution.
If instead I go back to Asia, I resolve to learn a few more phrases in whatever language is needed. It’s polite. It’s important. But I also know my limits and the truth is that I will not likely ever learn an Asian language. I also resolve to go to Burma or Laos if I’m bordering either country.
Hi Al, If you want real heat and bang for your buck you might consider Leon, Nicaragua.
My friend Gerald Pavon runs a tour business in Leon. He runs volcano tours, beach tours. I took a 3 day coffee country tour with him, in the cooler mtns of the north of the country. Here is a link to his site, he has contacts at language schools, too.
http://www.ecocampexpeditions.com/
If you return to Oaxaca City, I’ve done Spanish immersion classes at Amigos del Sol. http://www.oaxacanews.com/amigosdelsol.htm
Rogelio, the owner will find a homestay for you.
Sounds like you are going on sabbatical, Enjoy!
Kevin! Thanks for this great info. Nicauragua (and all of Central America) is so appealing to me right now. And Oaxaca City was a paradise — no one would ever have to talk me into going back. Hard to believe it’s January already. Cheers.