11 July 2005
Ometepe to the next place
all,
things in NIC are glorious! To finally answer to all the whinning about the lack of pictures. I do not have, nor will i have any time soon, a digital camera. Good old 35mm has been treating me well up until this trip. And i'm assuming the 14 pictures i've taken so far will turn out beautiful too. BUT, you will be able to see a glimpse of one or two of my photos if you visit the website of the farm i'm at... I just found out there was such a thing and the picture of the volcano on the homepage is literally the view i have directly outside my tent (which happens to be in a tree house).
www.silentdust.org/bonafide/
I think it's been about two weeks or so since the last update and i've been at the farm since then... work in the mornings and chillin in the afternoons. I've read a few of their books here and one i really enjoy was "Psychonavigation" by John Perkins. If you're so inclined its only about 130 pages.
I plan to leave the farm on the morrow. Highlights:
- Biking the 20k to the opposite side of the island to catch a ferry to Rivas only to visit an ATM, turn around, and head back. While on the return trip cruising as my front braking system works itself loose, catches the spokes, and sends my over my handle bars onto the crappy rock and dirt roads that are found here.
-The excitment i had after finding that of my bottle of rum and four cartons of wine i was carry back in a backpack, only one carton of wine was openned as a result of the biking mishap. (No worries either, i was able to salvage over 3/4 of the bottle of wine with the plastic shopping bag)
-Hiking 3 hours around our volcano to a trail head, 2 hours up the trail, and 1 hour in front of the most magnificent waterfall i've seen. The return walked sucked!
-and the soon to be party i've organised for tonight. We've made sourdough for pizza's, the brick oven will be heating in two hours. Then, when all our new friends are present, we start dicing up our fresh veggies and creating some of the best italian style brick oven pizza's i've had. We've done this one other night, but tonight i've prepaired three times as much dough and have accumulated a quality selection of beverages for the festivities.
Tentative plans for my last 8 or so days are:
Hike the smaller volcano again tomorrow.
Find a hostel on the other volcano.
Hike it. supposedly 10 hour round trip and more difficult than this volcano.
Leave ometepe.
Smile... as i am in central america.
Live life and follow the road in front.
Hopefully i'll get one or two more posts up before i arrive back in Minneapolis on the 19th.
love.
things in NIC are glorious! To finally answer to all the whinning about the lack of pictures. I do not have, nor will i have any time soon, a digital camera. Good old 35mm has been treating me well up until this trip. And i'm assuming the 14 pictures i've taken so far will turn out beautiful too. BUT, you will be able to see a glimpse of one or two of my photos if you visit the website of the farm i'm at... I just found out there was such a thing and the picture of the volcano on the homepage is literally the view i have directly outside my tent (which happens to be in a tree house).
www.silentdust.org/bonafide/
I think it's been about two weeks or so since the last update and i've been at the farm since then... work in the mornings and chillin in the afternoons. I've read a few of their books here and one i really enjoy was "Psychonavigation" by John Perkins. If you're so inclined its only about 130 pages.
I plan to leave the farm on the morrow. Highlights:
- Biking the 20k to the opposite side of the island to catch a ferry to Rivas only to visit an ATM, turn around, and head back. While on the return trip cruising as my front braking system works itself loose, catches the spokes, and sends my over my handle bars onto the crappy rock and dirt roads that are found here.
-The excitment i had after finding that of my bottle of rum and four cartons of wine i was carry back in a backpack, only one carton of wine was openned as a result of the biking mishap. (No worries either, i was able to salvage over 3/4 of the bottle of wine with the plastic shopping bag)
-Hiking 3 hours around our volcano to a trail head, 2 hours up the trail, and 1 hour in front of the most magnificent waterfall i've seen. The return walked sucked!
-and the soon to be party i've organised for tonight. We've made sourdough for pizza's, the brick oven will be heating in two hours. Then, when all our new friends are present, we start dicing up our fresh veggies and creating some of the best italian style brick oven pizza's i've had. We've done this one other night, but tonight i've prepaired three times as much dough and have accumulated a quality selection of beverages for the festivities.
Tentative plans for my last 8 or so days are:
Hike the smaller volcano again tomorrow.
Find a hostel on the other volcano.
Hike it. supposedly 10 hour round trip and more difficult than this volcano.
Leave ometepe.
Smile... as i am in central america.
Live life and follow the road in front.
Hopefully i'll get one or two more posts up before i arrive back in Minneapolis on the 19th.
love.
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Hiked the volcano in record time...made it to leon...found a sweet hostel...been chillin out all day checking out the historical sites...nic independence day honoring the revolution of the sandanistas is on the 19th and there´s always something going on around...really cool...love
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