Still can't believe I flushed a toilet and toads scrambled up the bowl. And four more did when I used the OTHER toilet, next door. When I tell this incredible tale to my Aussie folk here, they give me the "you're talking about buying…
Managua has a lagoon and you can zip line on it. Or over it. The footage is video, but this is Frankling, me, and Lydia, who was fresh in for a visit just 10 hours into her adventure here. I look somehow depressed but they look great so here it i…
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…
If you wondered where your hand-me-downs went, I just sifted through them in a second-hand American store in Managua, finding some pants after my SECOND pair of capris bit the dust in the inferno of Nicaragua in April. Found a pink bathrobe, a bro…
We stayed out in the street until daybreak. At about 2 I wedged myself into Yaci's car and then finally laid on a mattress just inside the garage gate. I was in the house but technically only half! I let my legs dangle out so one step I was up…
