Nicaragua, het land met de history van oorlogen en onderdrukking, waar de Sandinisten (volgelingen van Sandino = Nationale held) nu eindelijk hun stempel kunnen drukken op de vrijheid voor iedereen en waar de mensen langzaam maar zeker terug komen in het leven wat iedereen verdient! Het armste land van Centraal Amerika is ook gelijk het veiligste (volgens de betrouwbare informatie van ons reisboek, ahum) Iedere toerist is een eventuele bron van inkomsten, dus waarom zou je ze willen afzetten om ze zo weg te jagen? Dit was het gevoel wat wij de eerste dagen hebben gehad, iedereen is vriendelijk en niemand [View Full Entry]

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Since my adventure getting to Isla de Ometepe, I have been all over the place on the south Nicaraguan coast, hanging with a group of other surfers, going from spot to spot. I met a super cool guy from NC, he graduated from UNC and I was sporting my tarheel shirt, so naturally we started hanging out. I took a ferry across the lake with a friend from London and a true, flesh in bone gypsie. I always joke about gypsies and laugh about how they steal everything, but in actuality, I had never really hung out with one. We left [View Full Entry]

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Yikes, how time flies when there are no internet connections around. (I'm backtracking a bit and throwing some stuff in here from my real old fashioned pen and paper journal to keep this kind of up to date, so bear with me if they are kind of lengthy.) The first daytrip to Majagual lured me back for 3 more days of sun and sea, 2 nights of craziness, and 1 new hobby in the making. We ended up staying in the dorms at the EcoLodge since there were no rooms available at Matilda's and in general, the whole place was pretty [View Full Entry]

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