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Nicaragua A First Time Volunteer Experience
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 8 September 2009
A small town Canadian girl (yes I call myself a girl even at 46) gets a chance to go to a Central American country to build a school not once but twice! How sweet was that. It was even better this second time as I brought my 16 year old son Joey. We were joined by 10 other people making up our team of twelve.
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Finally, on the move
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 26 August 2009
We’ve left. It’s true. We spent two beautiful days in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua before saying goodbye to the country until the next time. It was a great country that treated us amazingly well. Really, I don’t think we could have asked for more from it. Two visitors, a small job, becoming more familiar [...]
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Horses, restaurants, volcanos
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 22 August 2009
So, it’s been 11 days since the last blog. Quite a bit has happenned since then, as you might imagine. The last blog was about the running of the bulls on Sunday. So let’s just start from there, as best I can remember. Things have a certain routine here now, so [...]
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A fractal of lives and perspectives; One incredible conversation
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 11 August 2009
It was with a local Nica named Lenny. Erin and I met a fellow traveler named Toby who we meshed well with, so we invited her to meet up with us to grab a drink before the running of the bulls on Sunday. We were thinking about a local bar called Ranchito Escondido, not far [...]
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Donde esta el Toro?
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 11 August 2009
A crazy couple days have ensued. Friday night, fabulous dinner with our friend Cammy. Saturday, vowing to take it easy, we stayed up late drinking with our new friend Tobie. Sunday, oh Sunday! Monday, a celebration with Tobie on her last night in town. And that brings us to today, Tuesday. Sitting here at Imagine writing [...]
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Breastfeeding and Social Responsibility in Microfinance
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 4 August 2009
What if Kiva were to encourage its microfinance partners to include breastfeeding initiation and duration rates in their social performance and responsibility assessments?
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As the Microfinance Mundo Turns: The Money Tree & the Family Tree
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 14 July 2009
Doña Cony's daughter works as a home health aide and nanny in Spain and sends money so that Doña Cony can have an annual mammogram. Doña Cony's mother died of breast cancer, and Doña Cony has had five benign cysts removed from her own breast. In Managua, a mammogram costs 650 cordobas (USD $32.50).
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Giant Crabs, Dark Jungle, Crap Torch, and a Crying Girlfriend
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 5 July 2009
Corn Islands At 7:00am we boarded the chicken bus for Managua which took 3 hours from SJDS, grabbed a cab to Managua airport, flew 1.5 hr in the tiny plane to Big Corn, taxi to the dock, took the 1 hour ass-numbing panga ride to Little Corn and finally we arrived on Little Corn, our main [...]
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How Not to Relax on Holiday
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 5 July 2009
Ometepe After departing for Granada on a 2hr bus to Rivas, we were herded by the drivers along with another backpacking couple into a van for a 30 cent ride to San Jorge, the dock of our ferry. The ferry crosses the giant Lake Nicaragua to get to our destination of Isla Ometepe. Thankfully the [...]
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Nicaragua – Granada
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 4 July 2009
Our time in Nicaragua flew by and all of sudden we are sitting on a plane on our way home wondering how our time went by so quickly. Nicaragua was a fascinating place to visit and since neither of us had ever been to Central America before this was kindof like jumping right into the [...]
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As the Microfinance Mundo Turns: The Best Nicaraguan Ice Cream
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 29 June 2009
I scream, you scream, we all scream for Doña Cony's ice cream.
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Kiva Novela — “As the Microfinance Mundo Turns ” Episodio 2: Who is Doña Cony?
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 27 June 2009
"As the Microfinance Mundo Turns" -- Episode 2 -- Purveyor of Nicaragua´s Best Ice Cream
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A $62 Million Dollar Mistake
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 17 June 2009
The cancellation of funds and an expanding economic crisis has left the majority of Nicaragua’s poor without a support system.
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El Realejo
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 3 May 2009
This little town has some old stuff. Imagine the ruins of this convent that was built in the 1500’s. It also had been ransacked and burned by English pirates on several different occasions. According to investigations (I saw it myself in Nevada in Virginia City) Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)passed through the port [...]
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Mango season
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 27 April 2009
Mango season has come and gone this year (almost). I think there were more mangos this year than last. People start eating them green (with salt) and in quantities that are surprising. As the fruit turns from hard green to a soft yellow and orangish color, the enthusiasm reaches it’s almost euphoric [...]
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Isla de Ometepe
Blog: one more left and i'll be on the right side - 23 April 2009
This shot was taken from San Jorge Harbour, Nicaragua and shows Concepción volcano. This volcano is one of two that forms the island of Ometepe, situated on Lake Nicaragua. St Patrick’s Day - 17th March 2009 – Isla de Ometepe The wind seems to attack these twin volcanoes all along their circumference, as if one hundred thousand [...]
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Nicaragua
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 21 July 2008
After deciding it had been much too long since we had left the country, we settled on a brief weekend trip to Nicaragua. Upon arrival at Logan we were joined at the American ticket counter by the New England Revolution who were on their way to LA for an upcoming match. While our flights were uneventful that day (the way we like it!), we found out on the news later that the Revolution were not as lucky.
