Archive for June, 2009
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
An Opera Singing Tour
While we’re waiting for our passports, we thought we’d take a detour from San Juan del Sur on the coast to the inland city of Granada located on beautiful Lake Nicaragua. Granada is picturesque with its grand churches and restored colonial architecture, nestled amoungst towering volcanoes, some of which are still active. The town was [...]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Finding Happiness
Interesting article in the New York Times by travel writer Pico Iyer called “The Joy of Less” . He hits the mark with so many things said in here. I’ve also wondered why people from nations who literally have absolutely nothing, some have even gone through terrible wars, like this place, yet on the whole [...]
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Managua
We hoped to be in Guatemala by now, but we’ve run into a small problem with our passports. Our passports are set to expire in November, six months from now. We can either renew them in Managua, Nicaragua or spend the extra time in Guatemala City. I’m not really keen on either of those places [...]
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
View from the Cockpit
It amazes me what you come to think of as normal. Here’s a small regiment of the Nicarguan Navy singing the national anthem outside of our cockpit. They have these briefings twice a day. Sometimes Chris and I feel as though we should line up there with them, as second rank with wine glass in [...]