Blogs from Capital Region, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean - page 8

Hi everyone! We have been busy getting situated in La Mariposa Ecolodge and have been taking Spanish lessons. Rich has been studying hard, but I have doing my best to just shoot the breeze with my teachers and so am not really utilizing my time well. We arrived late Wednesday and took classes Thursday and Friday. Today we had a field trip to Laguna de Apoya which is quite warm because of the underground warm springs that come up into the lake. The lake was really clean, but Rich noticed that there was a real absence of waterfowl and birds on the lake. It was a very large group of people who came from La Mariposa and this was a little hard for loners like Rich and I. We did swim for quite a while and ... read more

Ha pasado mucho tiempo! Well, I am back in Nicaragua, no surprise there. After a long year of living in Minnesota, my time came to go back to the country I fell in love with. My Rotary district is involved in a 10 year long initiative with the Masaya Rotarians and I received a scholarship to attend the next delegation. With Chile out the window, another opportunity came by! I spent close to 12 hours in 3 different airports and airplanes combined, just to get the cheap ticket. It was a long, lazy day, but well worth it for the price.My plane mate happened to be a Scottish who spent half his life in Nicaragua. He gave me a complete history of Nicaragua's torn past. I spotted Pharaoh Casino from the plane and saw all the ... read more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_botfly http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/documents/FACT/HumanBotFlyMyiasisJTFAug2007.pdf 8:30 pm I am exhausted. Thanks to printing and reading our online mag, for which I am the Travel & Leisure Editor, I read our IT's Tech Guide and downloaded free antivirus software, Panda Cloud Antivirus.... and it is finding allllllllll kinds of things in my computer. Which isn't surprising, but nontheless, worms in my legs, worms in my computer... it's a little much, don't you think? I am planning on taking the 9:30 expresso to Somoto tomorrow, which gets me in, hopefully, in time for the afternoon bus. Or I might take the later bus, who knows. I'm not thrilled about going back tomorrow, not gonna lie. I like hot showers and air conditioning and crisp sheets. Especially when I'm sick. Or when there's a greater chance of infecting my wound in a ... read more

11:30 AM Ugh. Working with a bunch of Editors is frustrating. 3:30 PM Awesome. So, since I am in Managua already, I had PC make a dentist appointment for me since two molars hurt. So I went. And I have no cavaties, but apparently I am grinding my teeth and have created little holes. So now one half of my face is numb, but the holes are filled on my left side. Go again tomorrow morning to fill the right side. She says everything else looks perfect, my bite is good, but for some reason I'm stressed and grinding my teeth at night. Awesome. Bet I can figure out why..... Then, as I was in the taxi on the way back, trying to talk to the taxi driver with half a mouth, my mother calls and ... read more

We Crossed the Nica Border with no problems and started to head towards Isle De Ometepe. We made are way through rivas and stopped for lunch, We bumped into our friend Gary, who we were going to visit on the island, that worked out pretty well. We parked the RV at Hotel California for a few nights ( they had dogs that run the property with a few shotgun guards) and headed towards the ferry. We made are way down the pier, and there was alot of drunk people getting a early start for Semana Santa. the 1 hour ferry right was very pretty. The locals have been a bit nervous over the volcano for the past few weeks being that it is still active. Before we arrived a couple weeks earlier the volcano was spewing ... read more