Road Trip:
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OP
Our rental in San Patricio Managua Nicaragua. We like it so much, we may buy it...
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Meeting one of my wife's childhood friends and family at their Cantina yesterday...
OP
Today we visited Islas De Lago Granada - Nicaragua...
OP
More photos from today's adventure...
OP
I think the monkey like you Bobby----
happy to see smiles on faces
Getting better...
That monkey would accept coconuts from the Devil himself!
OP
Nice pics!
PS - I wouldn’t trust the monkey
These spider monkeys regularly take treats from passing boats....
syscokid
Ambassador of War & Peace
I just finally got to view these pics on my pc monitor. These are some amazing pics.
In regards to this pic...
... Is this local trash, or washed up from far away?
OP
Local would be my guess. A lot of people just make no effort to keep the beach clean and we saw this first hand.
Hey Don O -- nice new avatar!!!
Thanks. It’s hard to show the the details of the custom guitar of my C7, the color, the headstock C7, the stingray, etc. in an avatar.
OP
Just rolled in from LAX. If I were to say that my experiences on this trip had forever changed me, it would be the understatement of the year.
I'm sitting here on a $4,000 leather sofa. About what a 3 bedroom shack costs to purchase. Few can afford to purchase homes and most rent lean-to's - built from discarded material gleaned from the dump - ike this one where my wife grew up in the San Juda Barrio in Managua:
A 3 bedroom shanty, with dirt floors, outdoor toilet and shower will cost you $75.00USD per month and people there are considered "blessed" to earn $5.00USD per day...
And this is the interior of an Aunt's home in Managua where we stayed overnight
Here is one of the better outdoor toilets I used. In the poorer areas, it's just a hole you squat over. I used "the hole" too...
A fresh water shower is a luxury few can afford...
My wife using the shower shown above:
Water is scarce and many wells have dried up:
We've already made plans to get another well going in this remote area of Leon, Nicaragua where my wife's cousins live.
In general, water is used to wash the dishes, then wash clothes and lastly for bathing.
and a heavily taxed gallon of gasoline costs $4.00USD...Which is why you still see ox carts and horse drawn wagons everywhere.
Those little kids -most dirty and without shoes - the ones that try and sell you candy - and the older kids that risk being ran over to clean your windshield at a traffic light do so to help keep their family from being evicted.
If a kid is lucky, and cleans 50 windshields in a single day, he or she would likely be given 1 or 2 Cordoba coins per car....one Cordoba is 33/100ths of $1.00USD, so that kid would potentially earn maybe $3.30USD for an 8 hour day - dodging traffic while barefoot on blacktop in 90°F/59% humidity conditions.
And yet, I met some of the kindest and most generous people during my stay there - especially the kids.
My wife giving away her jewelry to some Aunt's and Cousin's near Tipitalpa, Nicaragua
Coming home was almost surreal. Indoor toilets. Plenty of food. Such stark contrast to what we experienced during our two weeks there.
I see how I have complained so much and so often about things that don't really matter.
I really need to change a few things about me...
I'm sitting here on a $4,000 leather sofa. About what a 3 bedroom shack costs to purchase. Few can afford to purchase homes and most rent lean-to's - built from discarded material gleaned from the dump - ike this one where my wife grew up in the San Juda Barrio in Managua:
A 3 bedroom shanty, with dirt floors, outdoor toilet and shower will cost you $75.00USD per month and people there are considered "blessed" to earn $5.00USD per day...
And this is the interior of an Aunt's home in Managua where we stayed overnight
Here is one of the better outdoor toilets I used. In the poorer areas, it's just a hole you squat over. I used "the hole" too...
A fresh water shower is a luxury few can afford...
My wife using the shower shown above:
Water is scarce and many wells have dried up:
We've already made plans to get another well going in this remote area of Leon, Nicaragua where my wife's cousins live.
In general, water is used to wash the dishes, then wash clothes and lastly for bathing.
and a heavily taxed gallon of gasoline costs $4.00USD...Which is why you still see ox carts and horse drawn wagons everywhere.
Those little kids -most dirty and without shoes - the ones that try and sell you candy - and the older kids that risk being ran over to clean your windshield at a traffic light do so to help keep their family from being evicted.
If a kid is lucky, and cleans 50 windshields in a single day, he or she would likely be given 1 or 2 Cordoba coins per car....one Cordoba is 33/100ths of $1.00USD, so that kid would potentially earn maybe $3.30USD for an 8 hour day - dodging traffic while barefoot on blacktop in 90°F/59% humidity conditions.
And yet, I met some of the kindest and most generous people during my stay there - especially the kids.
My wife giving away her jewelry to some Aunt's and Cousin's near Tipitalpa, Nicaragua
Coming home was almost surreal. Indoor toilets. Plenty of food. Such stark contrast to what we experienced during our two weeks there.
I see how I have complained so much and so often about things that don't really matter.
I really need to change a few things about me...
gasket
Ambassador of the Guitarded
So sad for your wife, making that final trip to farewell her father.
Nice to read you will be helping out with a much needed new well.
I haven't been to Nicaragua or the USA, but I "suspect" peoples happiness doesn't vary much regardless of wealth or social standing. I've said it here before, happiness is a choice.
Nice to read you will be helping out with a much needed new well.
I haven't been to Nicaragua or the USA, but I "suspect" peoples happiness doesn't vary much regardless of wealth or social standing. I've said it here before, happiness is a choice.
OP
Very keen observation, Gasket.
I am a happy guy. But I realize that I have not been a particularly grateful fellow and I aim to change that.