Lady Liberty. Hey girl. Eight weeks out of the country. Four months on the road, total. I landed at JFK airport in New York and it just felt great to be home. It’s been years since I left the …
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Rarrr! It’s interesting that one of the best days of my trip would open with me filled with regret and existential questioning. Why, I wondered, did I think it was a good idea to take a 7 a.m. flight out …
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Greetings from San Jose, where I’m tucked away in a pension next to the Justice Department, watching the daylight get soft and sitting in the cool air of Costa Rica’s capital. It’s very quiet here, and that’s the way I’ve …
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In order to leave Nicaragua today, I was going to have to catch the 7 a.m. boat up the river. There’s less service on the weekends, and if I missed that one, the next one was at 2 p.m., which …
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Last night, I ended up at a little place called Restaurante Orquidea for dinner, where I sat alone on the upstairs terrace, looking at the moon over the tin roof of a store, shining its light on a palm tree. …
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This was a long day, even by the standards of the previous two, but a strangely relaxing one. I think I’m finally getting the hang of traveling again, and of course this would happen on the final few days of …
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Before I go on, I should let you know that there will be no photographs for a while. I lost the battery charger for my camera, and it is a highly specific one (you have to take the battery out …
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Two of the most important travel lessons you will learn in Nicaragua: 1) The whole world is a bus stop. 2) No bus is ever full. There are few things in Nicaragua that will give you a bigger dose of …
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I want to start off by saying how beautiful the Jinotega Valley is. This is the major coffee growing region of the country, and it features a lovely climate with cool nights (I wore a sweater for the first …
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This is a testimonial in favor of something that is very common in Nicaragua, and almost non-existent in the United States right now: the straight razor shave. Shaving in Central America has been tricky. I use an old school …