Florida to Nicaragua Road Trip #10: Chinandega, Nicaragua to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua (aka HOME)

Dear Reader, I am writing to you from my bed in my home. John and I arrived this afternoon. We are really tired. And super jazzed (if such a thing is possible when one is really tired) to be home. The morning started at our hotel in Chinandega. We were the only clients in the hotel and discovered that our toilet didn’t have any water in the tank after we’d already gone to bed. Oh well, John noticed there were bathrooms in the lobby if we had to do anything more than pee. I thought of checking to see if …

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Lost in Managua: Nica Nugget #24

What do you do in a strange city when night is falling, rush-hour traffic is terrifying, it’s pouring rain, the streets are flooding, the roads Google Maps/Siri screams at you to take to your hotel are all blocked by road construction and you realize you are lost? You pull up to the nearest motorcycle taxi and hire them to lead the way. And then you hire them for the next morning to drive you through the construction maze to your nearby appointment at the US Embassy (Stop #1 in applying for our Nicaraguan residency), because you’ve always wanted to ride …

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