Surf and Climb

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Greetings from Nicaragua!

We left Costa Rica on the 24th after heading back through the capital to perform some business and eat Taco Bell. I had a Crunchwrap Supreme and it tasted delightful. It tasted like the same dirty meat they use back in the states, so it was a welcomed and heart-warming treat. We caught a fancy bus (complete with air conditioning...the first we´d experienced in 2 weeks) after finding out that we were too late to book tickets for the more popular bus line and having to run around San Jose at 7 am. The people were not too helpful in us finding the other bus terminal. I tried to find the number to call them, and they gave me a phone book to panama, which I didn´t realize until a while later. There was also this fairly annoying US kid bothering us who thought it was a good idea to bring his skateboard with him to 3rd world countries that dont have paved roads. I guess he was practising his dirt-skating.

Anyways, we made it through the border fine and ended up that night in San Juan del Sur. A really cool town that serves as a fishing port for most of southern Nicaragua. We stayed an extra night to explore, and got on a ´Booze Cruise´for the evening where we got to fish for a couple of hours. We ended up catching a couple of ´Porkies´, and took them to a restaurant which cooked them up for us.

The next day we went to Playa Maderas and stayed at a really neat hostel a couple meters away from the surf break. We met our friend the ´Doghouse Lord´, aptly named because he chose to sleep in these meter high concrete blocks called ´Casas de Perros´by the owner, instead of in the nicer rooms that Taylor and I chose. Surf here was really good.

Our next destination was Playa Popoyo, which is a more remote surf break, and a reaaaallllly good wave. We stayed here for 10 days because the waves were so good. I definately caught the biggest of my life, and I have been improving every day. Huzzah!

The characters at our hostel in Popoyo included the Doghouse Lord, Surf Jesus, James, the Frenchies, and a floridian named Keith who is lives a couple houses down. The pictures I have posted are ones he took, and he is starting a business in Popoyo. Internet was hard to come by, so thats why there have been no updates for awhile.

Miss yall!

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