15 again
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…
San Juan del Sur - ain't no Surviving here
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…
Panamá!
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…
What the .....!?!
In the last three days, I have watched a guy lift a 100-pound bag of cement with his teeth, learned how to hammer 14 nails at once, rode down a cinder volcano on a wooden board with formica to make me go faster glued to theb bottom of it, narrowly…
A great day
Started the day with a 2.5-hour wait at my least favorite spots in any country: the bus station. Finally got to El Sauce and not enough time to hike to the waterfall so we grabbed friends and went to Rio Grande, where there are 20-foot or so rock…
to throw up, or not to throw up ...
that's is the question! Two years ago, we all went swimming in Rio Grande and I gulped down some water, as I always do. So did Kellan and Yaci. An hour later, we were all in the back garden, throwing up, me laughing so hard I cried it was so…
Meet the Las Minitas guys
First day of work: Meet Gustavo, the community leader, and the other guys who are helping to build the preschool through our Friends Project ... we are building the first preschool in Las Minitas, brick by brick! www.thefriendsproject.org See the…
Managua from on high
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…
It's a bird, it's a plane ...
Me, after volcano boarding on Cerro Negro, the world's most active cinder volcano and Nicargua's youngest. This time, I rode as if I was on a bull, one hand up and kept my balance. I did 41 KPH. I swear it felt faster! A guy after me rode…