Alan Irwin’s Blog

Ometepe Scruntched into one of the old U.S. yellow school busses that ply the roads of Nicaragua, we make our way from Granada through lush green countryside and small pueblos to Rivas. A recent college grad from Minneapolis offers to share a taxi to the ferry at San Jorge. We let Ben do the negotiating [...]

Hola muchachos. While Alan is taking command of the Spanish language, Harriet is taking command of the computer to get this blogging started. We are safe, sound and sweaty in Granada, Nicaragua where the average daily temperature has been in the high-90s (Note to Gayle: feels like high-90s) and the humidity… well, let’s just say [...]

  It’s now official (meaning we have the tickets). We are going to Nicaragua for our annual trip. We were having a hard time deciding on our destination this year. Nothing was really inspiring us. But our friend Sylvia (who’s half Nicaraguan) convinced us that the food, the scenery, and the people would make it [...]