After two days in Granada full of relaxation, cooking our own meals, beautiful colonial buildings, and bars with names like "The Zebra Lounge," we were OFF! to the pinnacle stop in our trip...Isla de Ometepe! for volcanoes, farming, nature, and welcome isolation. We had planned all weekend to take the 3:00 ferry across the choppy, expansive vastness of Lago de Nicaragua (seriously, look at a map, it's huge) and were proud to arrive early to the dock (early for us, though it may have been 2:45) only to discover that the twice-weekly trip books up quickly... too quickly... and tickets had been sold out for over two hours. Whoops! Sitting in the cab, bummed, bursting with excitement and momentum, we made the split-second decision to take a bus south toward Rivas, the other town with ferries
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