Could not leave for the train back from Machu Picchu without seeing who won the Germay/Ghana game. So I bought an ice cream and watched it with Marvilla here, who was tending her mom's store and eating some friend chicken and rice. She wanted…
I passed through four countries today. Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, ending in Lima. Technically I was in them but I was only in the airport at El Salvador and Costa Rica. I slept 2 hours last night and four the previous nights... working b…
I'm adopting the Nicaraguan traditional campo/cowboy style because it's just so good. I've ordered a handmade leather belt with hand-hammered traditional designs in the back ... so it does not over-gawdy my silver belt buckle, which wa…
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller Time is moving so fast. Cant' believe it's been like 6 weeks. In another month, I'll have a new life somewhere in South…
Waiting for friends in Leon, who were inside the Sandinistan revolutionary museum, one of the volunteers gave me a quick street lesson of salsa. I then dozed off on the steps of the revolutionary museum, riddled with bullet holes in some spots, to…
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…
5 a.m. The ladies start making their tortillas across the street, slapping the mushed corn quickly into rounded flat patties and toasting them on a fire. Whap. Whap. Every day. All day. The first night I wondered if Marta was making some next to…
... the adventure begins I have just begun what will undoubtedly the greatest journey of my life. Since I was a kid I have dreamed of traveling around the world, and as a teen and adult I've made my way to many amazing places. After 12 years o…
