Live From Mombacho Nicaragua #1

Wow!!!!!  What a whirlwind the past five days have  been.  We left at 2:oo am Friday morning for Orlando International Airport then boarded a plane for Panama City, Panama.  We had about an hour and a half layover there and then boarded another plane for Managua, Nicaragua.  We then loaded onto a steamy Nicaragua school bus and traveled a little over an hour to Granada, Nicaragua, stopping long enough at the mall to eat authentic Nicaraguan food (McDonalds). 

We arrived at our 5 star hotel “Hotel Casa Del Alto” late in the afternoon.  It is quite beautiful (by Nicaragua standards), it has air conditioning, indoor plumbing and indoor running water (except tonight…right after we arrived at the hotel after a long day in the field… and a monsoon… and a 1 and a half mile walk in the rain down a dirt road…oops…I mean stream).  Only two people have been electrocuted by the shower head mounted heater (outlawwed in the US) so far. 

Well, that’s all I can get in tonight.  Must get to sleep and call it a day. Asta levista!  PW