Oh what a long, strange, trip it´s been.... Just when you think you´re headed to Guatemala, you actually end up in Nicaragua again. When I initially left here in September, I knew I was leaving too soon, that I hadn´t hardly scraped the surface of what life in this land is like, but the beckon of the waves in El Salvador called me, and I let myself get carried away. Two months later, it comes to no surprise that I´m back here again. This time, instead sweating it out at the beach, I´m high in the cool mountains of Esteli, enjoying [View Full Entry]

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some photos of a weekend of beautiful waves in beautiful places with beautiful people.... [View Full Entry]

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As we step off the rocky dirt road onto a the rocky dirt path, our guide Rafael warns us to watch our step on the uneven terrain. Onto a rocky terrace we walk, with grand views of the mountains in all directions, and with the first slip of my worn out shoe down the worn rock face, I heed the advice, tearing my eyes from the horizon to the more humble places of where I place one foot in front of the other. I follow along, trailing the group as we wind our way down the hillside, skirting through the [View Full Entry]

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"The ocean is in constant flux, and when you spend a lot of time in it you become like a floating bottle with a message inside; you know you´re going somewhere, sense you have a purpose, but you also know you´re at the mercy of the winds and currents, that surrendering may be your only good option." -Jaimal Yogis Looking out into the sea here at Playa El Tunco, El Salvador, I tend to see quite a few floating bottles. It is, however, doubtful that any of the c [View Full Entry]

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It seems like everyone in this town has a war story. I´m in the northern city of Leon, waylaid here for a week while I wait out a flat spell of no waves. To make a long story short, I fell in with a rowdy crowd of Australians back in Popoyo and we were on our way to El Salvador when we stopped over here in Leon for the weekend. However, the modern miracle of internet surf forecasting told me there would be no swell til next weekend, and so Í´ve decided to stay here and enroll in language school for [View Full Entry]

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So you might be wondering what you might expect to see while walking down the street in Nicaragua, or while sitting back on your porch, or while kickin it on the beach.. here´s a few things i´ve seen along the way... [View Full Entry]

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BIG DROPS, LOTS OF ROCKS So I´ve moved on from the friendly beach breaks and white sands and happy tourist lands of San Juan Del Sur to find myself living in a dingy little room and the end of a dirty little road next to a sometimes stinky little river right next to a world famous surf break: Popoyo. I´ve been here nearly a week now, and i learned early on that this wave does not mess around. If the size of the drop doesn´t trip you up, surely the rocky reef will get you or your board at low tide. [View Full Entry]

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..and so here i am, in the town of San Juan del Sur, in the southwestern corner of Nicaragua, 11 degrees north of the equator, on this planet Earth. for a while now i´ve been wondering how i can remain in contact with friends and family back home and beyond, and so here i am making my first ever blog entry! i will be hopefully updating somewhat frequently, and so feel free to read, respond, or ignore. (i will, however, be administering a cumulative review once i return to the states to see just who my real friends are.) much has [View Full Entry]

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