The Way I Roll

I woke up at 4:30 am to catch a too-early shuttle to the airport in Managua. I arrived at the crack of dawn, grabbed coffee and a snack (I still had 3 hours before take-off), and went to check in for my 8:50 flight to Quito. Right away, an airline employee guarding the line told me...

The hotel that had arranged the guided hike to Volcán Maderas was not offering trips to Concepción during my time on Ometepe. The volcano had been grumbling a little bit, and had vomitó un poco the week before. (In Nicaragua, the word vomitar, meaning "to vomit," "to throw out," or "to disgorge,"...

My first night in Ometepe, I arranged to climb one of the island´s two volcanoes with a guide from a nearby hotel (the place I was staying was a little too barebones to have a guide - although we did have a scorpion in one of our rooms).The trip to Maderas began at the hotel at 7:30 a.m. The group consisted...