Drive to Popoyo to Visit Friends – 20220925

After partying last night in Granada I felt beat this morning. So I had a slow morning. I showed the owners of Cueva Nica the 360 camera and they wanted a bunch of videos of the hostel. So they walked around for a long time with the camera filming.

I ate breakfast, drank a batido, and finally left around noonish for Popoyo. I was headed to Popoyo to visit Jordan, Carolina and their baby Amanecer. They had offered to host me when I met them in the mountains.

I arrived around 330 and got a little tour from Carolina. Then Jordan got back and we chatted a bunch. Mostly about what it’s like to be an Expat planning on living forever in a poor foreign country.

Sun setting in Popoyo

It’s nice to hang out with them but a little boring as they are in a different stage of life as me. I never know how to feel at these moments when I peak into other lives I could have. There’s a tiny bit of envy when I see a little happy family. It looks calm and relaxing but man I don’t know how I could deal with all the monotony and every day just feeling same same but different.

Amanecer, cutest baby ever

But I love their baby. Just the sweetest little happy thing. I mean just look at her.

Tomorrow Jordan and Carolina offered to show me around Popoyo a bit.

Ride to Managua, the Big City – 20220812

Today I got up in Sebica and left around 11 am. It was a pretty nice and easy ride to Managua except that I didn’t have the helmet plastic or the sunglasses that could block the dust. So I teared up and blinked through dusty eyes the whole way.

I arrived around noon and are the best pollo asado I’ve ever had in my life and then headed to my airbnb.

I took a nap and then went to go eat and to the supermarket where I bought some fruits, yogurt, and wine. I need a few days of just rest and no driving and near death experiences.

Drive from Maciza de Penas Blancas to San Isidro – 20220810

I started the morning eating breakfast with the group I met yesterday. The coffee is so good. They make it themselves here. Straight from the backyard to your cup.

I said goodbye to the others and packed my things. It was raining a bit and I waited a tiny bit. I decided to just go in the rain as there is just no end to the rain here. I don’t understand how it’s possible.

It quickly got nicer though and pretty much the whole day was sunny and I really enjoyed the ride.

I stopped at Cascada Blanca on the way to San Isidro. I was honestly just exhausted, semi-sick, and wanted to grab a coke at the restaurant on the side of the road, but it ended up being an amazing place to walk down, see a gorgeous waterfall, and go for a quick swim.

The road was great and especially the last stretch to San Isidro is just a perfectly straight and fast road next to gorgeously green rice paddies.