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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Where’d I Go?
In a word, nowhere. It has been a few weeks since I last made a post on this blog (I’ve put up quite a few posts on my economics blog though). The reason for my blogging absence is nothing less … Continue reading
Posted in Books, León, Peace Corps, Training, Work
Tagged Academy Awards, Battle of Five Armies, Birdman, blizzard, blog, blogs, Boyhood, Cerro Negro, cooperative, Dissent, economics, El Hoyo, engineering, engineering school, entrepreneurship, finance, financial education, grammar, Granada, Grand Budapest Hotel, health, Jacobin, Las Pilas, León, LGB, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQA, North Korea, Northeast, Oscars, Out in the Dark, rural tourism, Spanish, teacher training, teaching, Telica, The Academy Awards, The Atlantic, The Battle of Five Armies, The Economist, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Hobbit, The Interview, The New Yorker, The Oscars, tourism, university, volcano, volcanoes, Why Nations Fail
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Playa Gigante
On New Year’s Eve at the airport, after busing in from León, I bid farewell to my parents, who had been in Nicaragua since December 17, and picked up my friends, a grand ‘ole party of six: My best friend, … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged bay, beach, billionaire, Carlos Pellas, cove, firecrackers, fireworks, Flor de Cana, friend, friends, friendship, Gigante, Guacalito, León, logger head, logger head turtle, loggerhead, loggerhead turtle, mackerel, Mexico, Mukul, New Years, New Years Eve, Nicaragua, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, palapa, palaperos, Pellas, Playa Gigante, Playa Redonda, Redonda Bay, Rivas, rum, San Juan de Oriente, sea turtle, snorkel, snorkeling, Tola, turtle, turtle egg, turtle eggs, viejo
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Vacation Recap
Around a week ago I explained my relative blogging hiatus through the occasion of a vacation – my parents and friends were consecutively in Nicaragua. I’ve just completed a series of posts about the stops on my trip, and I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged El Castillo, Granada, León, Managua, Nicaragua, Ometepe, Ometepe Island, Playa Gigante, Rio San Juan, Rivas, Tola, Travel, traveling, trip, vacation
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The Lion’s Den
After showing my parents Colonial Disney World, it was only fitting for me to bring them to the Lion’s Den, León. On our agenda were: The boiling mud pits of San Jacinto (some of my mom’s photos below) Going up … Continue reading
Posted in León, Travel, Vlog
Tagged beach, boiling mud, Bruce Springsteen, cathedral, fumaroles, Granada, León, lion, lions, Lions' Den, Managua, mid pits, museum, New Years Eve, playa, Ruben Dario, Springsteen, The Boss
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Traveling with Children in Colonial Disney World
After leaving Ometepe Island, my parents and I continued on to the colonial city of Granada. This was my second trip to Granada, and being a resident of León and having just come from Ometepe, I formulated some comparisons between … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged art, coffee, colonial, colonial city, Disney, Disney Land, Disney World, dreadlocks, Granada, Grananda, hike, hiking, hippie, hippies, islands, Isletas, Isletas de Granada, Las Isletas, León, Mombacho, museum, Ometepe, Ometepe Island, pre-Columbian, pre-Columbian art, statue, statues, tourism, traveling with kids, volcano, Volcano Mombacho, Zapatera, Zapatera Island
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Ometepe Island
After an interminable 11 hours on a ferry from Río San Juan that I could have swam faster than, my parents and I arrived at 1:30 AM on Ometepe Island. Ometepe is made of two imposing volcanoes jutting out of … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Christmas, cigars, coffee, ferry, Granada, Lake Nicaragua, Masaya, Ometepe, Ometepe Island, petroglyphs, plantains, Rio San Juan, San Juan de Oriente, tobacco, volcano, volcanoes
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Peace Corps Black-Sites
I’ve heard Peace Corps Nicaragua been referred to as the “Posh Corps.” And I’m not going to argue. We’ve got it good here. It is easy to get around the country. We are close to the United States. The staff … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps
Tagged black-sites, climate change, global warming, Haiti, intelligence, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Kiribati, Korea, North Korea, Peace Corps, punishment, rules, Russia, satire, sea levels, Senate, Senator, Somalia, Syria, torture
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Incidents of Travel 