island dreaming

hello all,
i´m alive and safe and healthy and still no theft or buggery. well, the place i´m at now has a bug problem, but that will just have to be dealt with as i´m here for 3 days. check out  Finca Magdalena (google it) for info.

i spent the past couple of days on a nice, warm, tropical beach on Isla del Ometepe...at Hotel Charco Verde (you can google that too). where i did il dolce far niente (the sweetness of doing nothing), well aside from the short hikes to see the monkey family and their caps for sale and the sea kayak adventure around a cape to visit an island inhabited by one horse and many birds and a few stubborn mangos (well, luckily we brought our own).

i paid for everything with a credit card because it was damn expensive. i stayed at the chi chi place with the chi chi prices, but generally it was well worth it. now i´m at cheap place with cots and dirty sheets but at least the food is excellent...just had the chicken soup...which featured a little chicky (whole) stewed with broth and veggies...topped off with a mango juice.

tomorrow or the next day i will trek to the top of the volcano just behind the farm-hostel. its a 8 hour hike with a cloud forest and well, i´ll report back what i see. in the meantime i´m just going to lounge around and drink coffee and look at at the volcano across the isthmus..volcan conception....one of the finest mountains i´ve ever seen...sort of like mt. fuji but with a cloud top instead of snow top.

be cool.
stay in school.
if you want to get shot.

peace,
chuck