It is the rainy season here in Nicaragua and one just never knows when another Tormenta will roll through. I hiked up Volcano Mombacho after taking the coffee farm tour of Cafe La Flores, a beautiful finca on the slopes of the volcano supplementing and benefiting from the rich soils on the slopes of the […]
Central America
The Day I met the Sapote Fruit
Stay with the locals. It is sort of obvious. You traveled a long distance to go somewhere else. You wanted a change of pace and a new experience. Stay with the locals. The people that look like you that come from the same place, lead similar lifestyles and create microcosms of where they come from […]
Inspired in Granada: Peta Kaplan and The Dogs of Nicaragua
Peta Kaplan sits beside a painting from her ‘Dogs of Nicaragua’ series Anyone who knows me knows my love of animals, my habit of taking in homeless creatures and my 18 year friendship with the love of my life Noie, a beautiful border collie lab rescue from the LA animal shelter. I was warned before […]