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Day Four: Tourism Business Development Workshop, Ometepe
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Tagged Charco Verde, Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua, Ometepe, Ometepe Island, tourism, video, video blog, video journal, video log, vlog
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Day Two: Tourism Business Development Workshop, Ometepe
Day two of the workshop started a little rough. The power went out last night (a common occurrence on Ometepe) so our rooms had no air conditioning or fans. The rooms were very hot all night long. Ometepe is not … Continue reading
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Tagged agro-tourism, business development, business development workshop, business owners, Cerro Negro, community based tourism, community tourism, cooperative, Costa Rica, eco-tourism, gringo trail, guide book, literacy, Nicaragua, Ometepe, Peace Corps, petroglyph, petroglyphs, spiral, spirals, strategic planning, tourism
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Close Encounters of the Howler Monkey Kind
[Apologies for the lack of pictures and videos. The internet is very slow on the island and I don’t particularly want to be up past midnight tonight uploading files. I will add the photos and videos when I am back … Continue reading
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Tagged active volcano, Australia, business development, Cerro Negro, Close Encounters, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, cooperative, Daniel Ortega, experience, Game of Thrones, howler monkey, massage, massage therapy, monkey, Nicaragua, nispero, Ometepe, Ometepe Island, Peace Corps, Telica, The West Wing, tourism, tourism cooperative, tourism development, Travel, United States Peace Corps, US Peace Corps, volcanic explosion, volcanic island, volcano, West Wing, William Walker
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Rural Business Advising
On three occasions now, while talking about financial goals, savings, and loans, I have had participants draw their financial goals. I thought of the activity because I have been working with two cooperatives whose members have low education levels and … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, business advising, business training, community tourism, cooperative, cooperatives, dreams, education, financial goals, fishing, goals, León, ocean, Poneloya, poverty, rural, rural education, rural tourism, Telica, Telica Volcano, tourism, transportation, Volcan Telica, volcano
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Las Pilas-El Hoyo
One of the projects that I have been working on nearly my entire time in León is business advising for a rural tourism cooperative. In January I proposed to them the idea of offering a full moon hike to Las … Continue reading
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Tagged Asososca, business advising, business advisory, cooperative, dawn, El Hoyo, full moon, full moon hike, full moon tour, hiking, Laguna del Tigre, Lake Managua, Las Pilas, Las Pilas-El Hoyo, León, Managua, Momotombito, Momotombo, moon, Nicaragua, rural tourism, tour, tourism
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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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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
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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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Interstellar II: Return to Gargantua
One of my newest clients is another tourism cooperative that manages the Telica Volcano. I made a plan to go meet with them yesterday and do some business training and strategic planning with them. I showed up a little early, … Continue reading
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Tagged beans, business training, community, cooperative, corn, farming, horse, horseback riding, horses, Interstellar, maiz, maize, poverty, rural communities, rural community, Telica, Telica Volcano, tourism, Volcan Telica, volcanic eruption
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Cerro Negro
So far, two months into my service, I haven’t started any projects other than working on the entrepreneurship curriculum in the schools. That’s fine though, because I’ve been working hard at networking and identifying who I can start other projects … Continue reading
Posted in León, Vlog
Tagged active volcano, ash boarding, ashboarding, Cerro Negro, community development, cooperative, cordillera, crater, eruption, lava, León, Maribios, Nicaragua, ring of fire, rural, rural tourism, San Cristobal, sand boarding, sandboarding, Telica, tourism, training, volcano, volcano boarding
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Incidents of Travel 