After a week of mostly rain and cold weather, it was time for a brief reprieve. The project wasn't going quite as planned and equipment failure also added to the decision to head down to Managua for a couple days. And how else to get there but in the back of a truck. Classic.
What is not captured in these pictures is the huge bags of green coffee and 6 other people that were also smushed in the back of the truck with us for the first hour of the ride.
We dropped the coffee and the people off outside of Jinotega, at the beneficiado where the coffee is dried.
Then we were on our merry way...ready for another 2 or so hours of wind blown adventure.
Needless to say there are a lot of pictures of blurry roadsides.
Oh, and the disco bar...not because we wanted to, but we had to. We spent a good 45 minutes hanging out in the parking lot waiting for the radiator to cool down. Nothing like an overheated radiator to add to the adventure.
The 3 hour trip turned into 5 or more. Not entirely sure, but a few more roadside stops were needed to give the radiator a break. Eventually we made it Managua and dropped John off at his hotel. No more translator...hence began immersion spanish. We were dropped at Hotel Casa Real (that's right, we're keeping it real) where we've been bumbling through trying to communicate in spanish. Mostly, people break down and speak english to us or hunt down someone who can understand what we are trying to say. A-mazing.
Hotel garden art...
The roof tops of Managua.
So far we've managed to go to the mall and buy groceries without incident. Big Day! The next test will be taking the bus back to El Jaguar...talk about experience...
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