04 July 2005
Ometepe - a la finca
everything worked out beautifully with my trip to ometepe. Caught the tica bus from san jose, got to rivas, Nic. in time for the 2:30 ferry, got to Ometepe just in time for the bus to Bolgue, and walked the 5 Km to finca magdalena. I got in just before dark and as luck would have it Chris, one of the owners of the farm i was hoping to work at, was up at magdalena hanging out. Walked back with him to his farm. Both he and his partner had a flightall us for free? YES!
to catch back to the states the next morning so when i woke up it was just myself, another volunteer, and evelio. Things are great. 4 or 5 workers come up and work the morning with us on the farm, and then its just evelio, and us in the afternoons. I met a really nice family who farm near town and i've helped them a little on their farm as well in the afternoons. In fact, the first day i worked with them i was too tired and lazy to walk back so i crashed at their place for the night. I was fast asleep by 8 pm. Which sucked because that night there was apparently an earthquake somewhere in the ocean near here because everyone felt the ground shake, except for me because i sleep through everything.
I slept through my first earthquake... shucks.
Everything is good though. I'm enjoying myself here and i'm learning more spanish here because nobody i'm working with, except the other volunteer, speaks english. weirdest thing of working on the farm so far has been having to deal with scorpions. They've fallen from the roof onto our kitchen table... i've had to get them off my tent before crawling in. I've decided I don't like scorpions.
Oh to help you picture the farm, as i don't do photos: Everything is thatched roofed, no walls, only posts coming down to the floor. There is maybe 4 of these buildings. And everything is a garden. Every plant, tree, thing planted on the farm produces some type of food or useful product. The food is great, no iguana, no meat actually, but good.
Until later,
love
to catch back to the states the next morning so when i woke up it was just myself, another volunteer, and evelio. Things are great. 4 or 5 workers come up and work the morning with us on the farm, and then its just evelio, and us in the afternoons. I met a really nice family who farm near town and i've helped them a little on their farm as well in the afternoons. In fact, the first day i worked with them i was too tired and lazy to walk back so i crashed at their place for the night. I was fast asleep by 8 pm. Which sucked because that night there was apparently an earthquake somewhere in the ocean near here because everyone felt the ground shake, except for me because i sleep through everything.
I slept through my first earthquake... shucks.
Everything is good though. I'm enjoying myself here and i'm learning more spanish here because nobody i'm working with, except the other volunteer, speaks english. weirdest thing of working on the farm so far has been having to deal with scorpions. They've fallen from the roof onto our kitchen table... i've had to get them off my tent before crawling in. I've decided I don't like scorpions.
Oh to help you picture the farm, as i don't do photos: Everything is thatched roofed, no walls, only posts coming down to the floor. There is maybe 4 of these buildings. And everything is a garden. Every plant, tree, thing planted on the farm produces some type of food or useful product. The food is great, no iguana, no meat actually, but good.
Until later,
love
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don't know what happened in that first paragraph of the post... just ignore that "all us was free. yes!" part.
Nice, Bmo, nice. Championship caliber adventuring you're doing down there, well done. B(m)o knows livin' it up the good way.
Glad to hear that your plans-sans-plans are working out, they generally seem to do for those people who are willing to smile, laugh and work when necessary. and sometimes hike a long way.
When will you be back? Dave, Niko and I will be in Colorado from the 6th through the 22nd or so. I don't leave for Hungary until the 18th of August. Will certainly track you down before then, perhaps even in the Apostles, no?
Pictures would be nice, but hey, to each his own. I'm thinking about going to a pawn shop and getting me an old-school film camera before hitting up central europe. hope the ladies over there are just as enchanting as down there...please pardon my assumption that you are finding them enchanting, but i'm sure it's warranted.
take care bud. see you soon.
jrj
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Glad to hear that your plans-sans-plans are working out, they generally seem to do for those people who are willing to smile, laugh and work when necessary. and sometimes hike a long way.
When will you be back? Dave, Niko and I will be in Colorado from the 6th through the 22nd or so. I don't leave for Hungary until the 18th of August. Will certainly track you down before then, perhaps even in the Apostles, no?
Pictures would be nice, but hey, to each his own. I'm thinking about going to a pawn shop and getting me an old-school film camera before hitting up central europe. hope the ladies over there are just as enchanting as down there...please pardon my assumption that you are finding them enchanting, but i'm sure it's warranted.
take care bud. see you soon.
jrj
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