Blogs from Northern Highlands, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean - page 18

Ah travelblog has been sucking and I finally got on and hopefully this post will, well, post. First of all, I HAVE MAIL! Lovely letters and packages, which I have not yet opened because I am super excited to get home and open all of them! Okay, well, I did open the card from China and from my awesome mbuxton because I really really wanted to see what kind of Chinglish was inside of the Santa and Reindeer card. And here it is: front of card: merry christmas The deep blessing. the silk friendship. the string missing. turns to a gift, keeps in your heart. inside of card: merry christmas. Missing you, in spring´s misty rain Worrrying you, in first summer´s sunny day Blessing you, in autumn´s fallen leaves Thinking you, in winter´s white snow awwww ... read more

hi everyone! We have just left Esteli and are now in Managua getting ready for the trip home in the morning. We spent a very interesting 3 days staying in a home up in the mountains of Nicaragua. The people were fantastic as usual but what a way to live. It started with us not wnating to pay $200 US to get to our reserved home call Posada La Perla so we took the chicken bus. It went up and up from essentially sea level to 5,000 feet. We were in an old schol bus made in Missassagua (Blue Bird( AND WE STOPEED EVERY kM. It took almost 2 hrs to climb into the mountains. As it turns out the man we spoke with in Esteli was to be our guide and later we found out ... read more

EEEEEK! I GOT MAIL!!! And to think I wasn´t even going to come into Somoto today. Hiked down the mountain to San Lucas to go the Centro de Salud to acquire the aforementioned abate. PS Ben, whoever you are, you rock my world and fish are an awesome idea, but somehow bañaring with fish crap in the water doesn´t seem much more appealing than with mosquito larvas... but they are a good ideeeeea.... Anyway, my plan was just to go get the abate and use the cyber in San Lucas, but - predictably - the cyber wasn´t open. They just tend to be open whenever they wanna be. So I hopped on a microbus to Somoto. Went to the awesome liquado place for my orange and pineapple smoothie and a cup of creamy goodness, otherwise known ... read more

Yeah, in a pissy mood. Not sure why. Something to do with S leaving back for her site, not getting breakfast, being the only one hauling water for the first 5 trips, not being proficient at washing pants on a 1.5x2 foot concrete slab, having Eyebrows be in such a good mood, Heartbreaker´s silence, and the fact that the aforementioned took my camo hat with him today and I am wearing my comfort BMC 1999 Hell Week shirt from Mel and wanted my goddamn camo Phillies cap to go with it but had to settle for stealing his Che hat. Also, this keyboard sucks. All I wanted to listen to on my hike down the mountain was Eminem and 50. And all I kept thinking all morning was, I wish a mothereffer would. As in, I ... read more

Whilst ensconced in Spanish classes in Esteli we stayed with a family on what was a pseudo homestay. Pseudo in the sense that Ivania, the mother of the household, was quietly building her very own little hotel empire. Consequently, we were joined at our digs by two other foreign characters. Kenny, a rather boring fifty plus save-the-world obsessive from Florida (sorry Kenny you’re a nice guy but one more riveting lunch time exchange over tortillas and gallopinto would be one more far too many). And, Joe (Joseph) a rather interestingly mannered lad from Upstate New York who we first had down as an axe murderer but turned out to be quite a fascinating individual. Ivania and company were certainly more than a little removed from our host family in Sabana Grande. Removed mostly in terms of ... read more