Don Mauricio is the Clint Eastwood of Nicaragua. He’s 80 something years old and every night walks up to the summit to sleep at the Ranchon, to keep his eye on the lone solar panel that the tourism and coffee cooperative has up there. Every time I s…
"I like to ride down the mountain in the back of the pick-up, but I cought with all the dirt and dust. I have a bad pechuga ... from smoking." For what must be the 100th time, Enrique looks at me, smiles, laughs and says, "you have…
I've always hated showering. It's annoying. I don't want to take my clothes off, put them back on. When I'm sick, I stay as disgusting as I possibly can, til the sweat coats me like a filmy base layer, and it's finally time to dis…
I am have been in El Sauce but the water and electricity has not! So I washed my hair for the first time in four days. But meh, the dust looked fine in it too. More body.…
First day in El Sauce, we rode up the mountain to Las Minitas and past to Cerro Colorado, for a meeting of the Fuente de Pino basket-making cooperative. These are the women who make the baskets out of pine needles that fall near their homes; simpl…
This is the existing preschool-kindergarten that The Friends Project is helping the farmers replace with a one-room shoolhouse with a few windows, blackboard and supplies! Work starts Monday and I’ve brought the mascot for the kids to name when they…
Our gravel started its life today halfway up to Las Minitas, filling the truck to the brim. Popped a tire from a rock somehwere between Buena Vista and Las Minitas, and that plan was kaputt. Franklin, Juan and the others had to drive it back down…
