Chil’s Point of View….

Not personal… not stereotypes.. just playing with what I saw/experienced… And just enough information to use when bugging Nelly about Nicaragua.
Here goes -
1. Nicaraguan roads have tons of Cabs/Taxis
I stood on the corner for about 12 minutes on a busy street, and counted the number of cars going past. I only counted the ones going [...]

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We are currently in Rivas, a city about 3 hours from Managua – December 26th. We are in a small beach town called ‘San Juan Del Sur’ (South of the San Juan), and our hotel is less than 300 meters from the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Yesterday, we checked out the beach and I [...]

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Food; Drink; Family; Christmas Tree; Kids waiting on Santa; Tons of Food; Pictures; Laughing;
Merry Christmas

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What’s up with Rental car companies outside of America. I expect an AVIS brand in any part of the world to try and give the same service. We seem to hit into issues when we travel. Remember last year in Zambia, there was a problem with the rental company – see last year blog post [...]

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Saludos de Nicaragua == Greetings from Nicaragua.
We arrived in Managua on December 17th 2007. 
Chilumba looked for internet access and was finally happy to be online again .
Spanish keyboards do not have the @-symbol. Shift-2 does not do the trick. So I had to ask how to enter the @ sign while in the internet [...]

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Ola (Master TA) dropped us off at the airport for our Red-Eye flight out of Seattle. The longest of the trip is the Seattle-Atlanta leg (5 hours). Then a 4 hour wait in Atlanta, and then the 3 hour Atlanta-Managua flight.
Currently in Atlanta – browsing the internet on my laptop with ‘Internet Connection Sharing’ on [...]

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