Nicaragua 2005
I actually made 2 trips to Nicaragua in early 2005. The winter in Canada was getting me down and so (as usual) I scoured the "net" for cheap airfare to somewhere warm, found a great deal to Managua and took off for a week. Little was I to know that I would be back again less than a month later for a 2 week stint....call it karma, coincidence or whatever, the cast of characters I met have since become like a second family to me, and Nicaragua is definitely calling me back.
I landed at Managua's airport on an Air Transat charter and was the ONLY person to NOT board a bus to some all inclusive resort at Montelimar. 364 people on board and I alone was left trying to find some cordobas and a way to Granada.  Now you would figure with an airbus arriving that the bank kiosk would be open...but no, so I changed some $ with a shop keeper, and managed to find a cab to the Huembes Bust station...and a chicken bus to Granada, about 1 hour away.
I arrivied in Granada and found my way to the Oasis Hostal  (www.nicaraguahostel.com) took a much needed shower and set out to explore. Granada reminds me of Antigua, Guatemala..very colonial, although slightly more run down. I had been conversing with a resident online and decided to give him a call, he'd been very helpful with some planning and I had offered to meet up for a beer.
Little was I to know that that fateful call was to change my whole plan of action for not only the week ahead, but the spring of 2005!!
February 3rd, 2005
The week I was to spend in Nicaragua in February and the two weeks in March have ended up being kind of a blurr of activity, silliness, fun and helping out. So unlike my previous entires I will arrange this page, not chronologically, but by anecdote and event. The logical starting place is Bobby...a great guy and now a great friend, and the story continues from there.
Bobby and buddies
Granada
La Machina Waterfalls
La Esperanza Granada (NGO)
Volcano Masaya
Volcano Mombacho
Foxy's Bar
San Juan del Sur
Jeff's Island (Las Isletas)
The Guiness Book of Records Cookoff at Matagalpa
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Laguna de Apoyo
The last sad day...adios amigos!