What's Up El Salvador

Sunday is not the best day to have a tire blowout in San Salvador. And never put off buying tires until the next day. Today we learned both of these first hand. After leaving Union Church in San Salvador we were taking our daughter to this cool POPS location with a big playplace. it was [...]

We made a remarkable food find yesterday in San Salvador. We are finding that there is a lot of really good food in El Salvador as long as you think and eat like a Central American and not an American. We have been working hard to seek out local, independent non chain and non American [...]

Today we purchased a car in San Salvador. There are some learning points I’d like to discuss. For the specifics of buying a car and passing it into your name, visit VidaSalvadorena.blogspot.com where you will find a very clear and specific breakdown of the process. The author describes the process in detail more clearly than I [...]

We checked into Hotel El Alicante on Saturday, and were pleasantly surprised that they let us check in hours early, and when they saw how much luggage we have they gave us a larger room, and would not let me lift a finger to carry it upstairs. The hotel is in Antiguo Cuscatlan, walking distance [...]

We took a short walk to Parque Cuscatlan today and thought a Sorbet wounded like a great idea. It was What I liked most about the sorbet was that it tasted very freshly made, and the fresh fruit flavors improved my hot sweaty jet-lagged attitude fourfold. My daughter chose Maracuya, My husband chose Marayan, and [...]

The red-eye flight from LAX was smooth and felt shorter than I expected. The trip is about five hours. The weather looks a little cool and misty. It is misty at dawn, that’s the truth. Have you ever taken a really long hot shower on a cool day, and after you got out, realized you [...]