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

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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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Florida to Nicaragua Road Trip #3: Laredo, Texas to Ajijic, Mexico

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Dear Reader, Our La Quinta hotel was right next to a Shell gas station that also had a money changer and a Mexican auto insurance vendor, all of which were open 24 hours, so our day began at the Shell station. From there, we crossed the Rio Grande river at the International Bridge 2. There was little traffic leaving the US so we moved straight through with just a cursory glance by a custom’s agent at our kayaks and through the windows into the back of our truck. So that part was easy. The bitch was trying to get to …

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Florida to Nicaragua Road Trip #2: Alabama to Mexico’s Border at Laredo, Texas

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Dear Reader, We said goodbye to family and headed west, with the border crossing at Laredo, Texas, as our destination. The drive from Orange Beach, Alabama to Laredo, Texas, took us two days. Since we didn’t have our heavy and side-vision-impairing pop-top camper on the back of the truck, we didn’t have to take the slower, albeit more aesthetically pleasing, side roads and instead joined the holiday travelers on the I-10 interstate the day after Christmas. And, since we weren’t making our usual return trip all the way back to Colorado after a holiday spent in Alabama along its affectionately …

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