One month and three days after my arrival we just drove down from Las Minitas with the masons, who have spent three weeks there. Today they put the final exterior cement on the school and yesterday the roof. We are fast moving! Someone from the co…
I've started to take one long video of the commute to and from Las Minitas where we are buildig the school. The strangers who stand on the side of the road and we pick up. The farmers. The cows trotting down the road. The mountain. The giant pil…
10 p.m. on a "schoolnight," on the back of a motorcycle, puttering along the pavement, past the neighbors sitting outside their houses or on the street, with a friend riding your draft, close enough you could grab the dirty wheel. They are…
El Sauce feels like home, but still there are things that take me out of my self and I notice them. It's so noisy, but as time goes on, I don't see it as noise, but as life. Energy. Once in a while something everyday bumps into me and remin…
…before my skin was burned off. I walked out of the building today and looked up at the straw baskets and the mototaxi coming at me, and I felt like I was cooking. A little flame charbroiling my guts from the inside.…
We were having dinner in Managua at a churrasco place, and the first of about 6 earthquakes to hit that night start when I'm about to put a tasty bite of puyaso in my face. The low gutteral moan and the crescendo, and I'm up and ready to bol…
Photos from our weekend trip to San Juan del Sur, the famous beach and surfing area in Nicaragua for Semana Santa. They are filming Survivor there. Really? You could walk over the f-ing hill for a beer and soda. Not much “surviving” there. We also…
So I went to Panamá on a whim to get recertified in diving. Panamá! I just like saying that. This not having a 9 to 5 is the bomb. This lifestyle, of having no plans and just doing what I want suits me, as it always has. Freedom. I'll take…
The death toll rises. Now dead in Latin America: My NEW ring made of cow horn and seashell. Glad I only paid $8, but that's pricey. Bee sting bracelet but I fixed that. And the bathing suit again. Really. Somthing is a mystery here.…
