Postings from San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua

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Return to the Sea 04/02/08
Rivas was hot, dusty and filled with touts clamoring to shove you a cab bound for just about anywhere but Rivas itself. Not being the sort of tourists that like to disappoint a determined tout, we ended up in one …
Topics: Beach, Nicaragua, Sunsets
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Recent Writings
  • Thursday
    June 26, 2008

    Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of …
  • Saturday
    June 7, 2008

    In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
    Responsibilty and Living Well
    Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips …
  • Tuesday
    May 20, 2008

    Failure is My Friend Okay, let’s face it. The Photo of Day project has fallen apart. I have failed. Oh well. It was fun while it was …
  • Saturday
    April 5, 2008

    Little Island in the Sun From San Juan Del Sur we caught a cab back to Rivas (much faster driver this time), then a bus to Managua, switched …
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Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
cover image for Ficciones My first hands on with Borges... Absolutely amazing. So far beyond what I've been reading lately (mainly non-fiction and some late 20th century authors). As with Faulkner, I find it shocking that I was given an undergraduate degree in English without having read Borges. That simply should not be allowed. Everything I was expecting and so much more. If, like me, you know Borges through his myth rather than his words, this is a fine place to start. And rest assured, the myths are nothing next to the real thing. more »