More Pictures

A Costa Rican traffic jam. 
A guy selling pottery on the beach

Grammy with a cocktail 
Me waiting for the bus. 
The supermarket I do most of my shopping at. 

Me dreaming

Pollo Campero....my favorite Nicaraguan fastfood restaurant.

Me not getting any mail

The fancy wiring job at the local market. 

Visit from home.

Here are some new pictures, most are from when my grandmother and dad came to visit. Enjoy.



Sailboating

The inside of the sailboat.... what you see here plus 3 bedrooms, bathroom, and control station. Pretty impressive

Scuba diving off Coco Beach


My dad getting a quick pep talk.

Going on an all day horse riding adventure with Alejandro

The old church in Nicoya. It was built in the 1500s by spanish settlers... making it the oldest building on this side of the country.

Some more sugar related photos.

The big male howler monkey that tried to pee on my dad.

Walking around my town

Coffee beans drying

Me picking oranges

This is how most people get aound my town. Walking up and down steep little dirt trails.

A typical little diner in Santa Cruz where we just had lunch.

A normal bus ride...stannding room only.

Martín pealing rice the old-fasion way

Alejandro and is team of oxen ready to work.

Bringing the oxen to the sugar cane field.

Cutting sugar cane.
Loading the oxcart

unloading the cane. this is the machine that squeezes the juice out. The oxen are attached to one end of the wooden beam and walk in circles for hours while the cane is fed through the machine and the juice draines out into a big plastic bucket.

Boiling down the cain juice in a cauldron held in place by dry mud and rocks

Cleaning up from a morning of juice making. You can see the it boiling in the background.

My friend Matt who lives by the beach is friends with a really nice german woman named Erica who owns a horse riding tour company directly on Junquillal Beach. She generously invited us over for dinner and to go riding last week.

Notice how dry and brown everything is this time of year. A lot of the trees have even lose their leaves due to a lack of water.

Me trying to look like a cowboy.

Matt and Erica staging some photos in a mangrove swamp.

Matt and Erica running down the beach.

Sunset on the beach.

This was a little tornado traveling right down the main road in my town. It started out a lot bigger but by the time I got my camera out it had pretty much gone away. I think the horse was getting ready to run if it got any closer.