Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Navigating the Rio San Juan in Southern Nicaragua today, you won’t see much traffic. There are the local fisherman, a few sportfishermen, and...
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In 1976 Sandinista poet-priest Ernesto Cardinal came to the remote Solentiname islands in southern Nicaragua. He found a naturally artistic people who...
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So much of travel, especially travel in a developing coiuntry, is about waiting. It can be frustrating, but at least it gives you a chance to look...
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I’d done yoga in the open air pavilion alongside the rushing Cano Negro River, soaked in a hot pool with views of the heavily wooded slopes near...
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“There’s still enough light to walk down to the waterfall, says Mark, who, with his wife Lucy, manages the Treehouses Hotel in Costa...
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I posted a few days ago about taking my Kindle on the road, lamenting that the device didn’t read epub files, the "free and open ebook...
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2012, a disaster movie that takes a Mayan doomsday myth and runs rampant with it, opened yesterday to mixed reviews. One person not singing its...
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It’s been a bad week or two for bridges in Costa Rica Last Friday, a bridge over the Río Rincón in Puerto Jiménez, on...
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According to a survey by Demoscopía / Al Día, former vice president Laura Chinchilla is heavily favored to become the next president of...
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Edgar Allen Poe fans, take heart. You may have missed the open casket viewing of Poe’s body and the Oct 11 procession in which Poe’s...
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