Just landed a ticket from Managua to Lima round trip for $600 with just 2 days before take-off ... not sure how, but prices actually went down. After Macchu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco and the salt flats of Bolivia,I am returning to Iquitos, Peru…
My clothes are either too big or disintegrating again so I went with Xiomara to her friend's house to get them fixed. She is about 65 and I have stayed with her and her grandsons for the past six years I have come here. I've watched them g…
I took some photos around the house today. AlĂ© and Marcelo trying to get the pet parrot, Chocoyito, out of the backyard tree, some of the mangoes that drop off the tree and onto the tin roof at night and scare the crap out of me because it sounds…
Where are you from? New York. It is very hot for me here. Very hot. It's better than 2011, when people were handing me towels to dab the sweat of my drenched face. (Only a few people guess anything other than the U.S., and then it's Germa…
I arrived at the preschool in Las Minitas to find palm fronds decorated with paper flowers on the door and tablecloths on the two tables families had brought to the school. Javier, who also teaches our English class, myself, Frankling and Alcides…
The national bird of Nicaragua is the guardabarranco, a lovely little creature with yellow chest and a splash of red on its wings and a long tail of bright blue like the pendulum of a grandfather clock. It is so common on the way to and in Las Min…
Last night while it was raining so hard I couldn't run down the street with my computer and camera, I flipped on the TV in Xiomara's house and landed in 1950s America. The Rebel Cats "Mala Influencia" [https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I think there is no better place in El Sauce than Rio Grande, a river about 15 minutes by truck outside the town. My first time there Rio was not so sweet; I gulped down some water and had a marathon vomit session worthy of a "Jackass" f…
Last night was karaoke in La Marca, one of the few bars in El Sauce. Sean and I sang "Die Die My Darling" by The Misfits, back in the good old days before Danzig left and when he still had a neck. I am a terrible singer. I don't car…
