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Managua, Nicaragua- Muy caliente - big breeze - big trees
Arrived Tuesday night. Best Western, Las Mercedes. Clean and green. Relaxed with ice cold Victoria's - Nicaraguan cerveza. Ceviche muy Bueno. Wednesday: hot with big breezes blowing through big palms...
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Katya Cardenal singing with breeze and surf
Pochomil-Nicaragua Listening to Katya Cardenal singing songs by Silvio Rodriguez. She is of the same family as Ernesto Cardinal. Another social reformer. Flor de Cana rum, fresh limes and coke....
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Fish, fish, fish - lobsters and shrimps (camarones)
Friday (Viernes) 24 Abril, 2015 Busy day. Up at 5 a.m. Rented an ATV for $20 and drove up the beach to the fishing village of Masachapa, past thatch-roofed, sand floored restaurants and hostels. We...
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Leaving the coast and on to Leon
We drove today an hour and a half to Nicaragua's colonial capital of Leon. Sugar cane fields. Dry hills and hot. Already missing the coast. The city is especially hot. Surrounding volcanoes must all...
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People in Nicaragua doing what Nicaragua people do
Becky and I spent 10 days in Nicaragua recently. Those who follow my intermittent blogs know this. Others not so much. I have lots of photos to share. Nicaraguans are nice people. They eat healthy,...
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Dewey beer, perverted justice, a bite out of Rehoboth history
Blondie, Brandon and a bunch of other folks at Dewey Brewing Company worked hard over the Memorial Day weekend putting finishing touches on the new brew pub. They plan to open to the public this...
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More glimpses of Nicaragua: Sandanista politics
The long-legged politics of Augusto Caesaro Sandino - the early 20th-century revolutionary whose passion for his nation and its native peoples continues to inspire - are evident everywhere in the...
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Trimming a horse's hooves in the Nicaragua mountains
Here's a quick one for you. One day we went riding on the dirt roads in the mountains of Nicaragua. But before we headed out, one of the men at Finca Neblina del Bosque kneeled down in front of one of...
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The buses of Nicaragua are a tie that binds
Customized school buses make up the backbone of the Nicaraguan public transportation system. When they rumble up the dirt roads into the little villages of the rural countryside, people come out of...
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Birthday humor about the chief named Shortcake
We celebrated our daughter Meredith's 35th birthday this weekend. "It's easy to remember my birthday year because I was born in 1980," she said. "2015, 35.""Me too," I said. "I was born in 1950. 2015,...
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Surf Shanty: as cool as an orangecicle
Surf Shanty. Orange like a storm-coming sunrise. Tin roof rippling like a light-breeze bay in the lee. Cool stuff inside. Sand Off, striped towels, boards and caps, sand shovels, Frisbees and...
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Box turtles, horseshoe crabs and the full moon
Box turtles on the move. Four sighted in three days. First on Saturday on Fourth Street in Lewes by the woods. Nice lady with two dogs. Grandson on the back of the bicycle. She's looking down. "Look...
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Wild horses in the highlands of Virginia
A group of us traveled ten hours to the southwest to ride bicycles and hike trails in the Virginia highlands. In Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, the mountains rise to over 5,700 feet. No peaks,...
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A Rehoboth ride, reflecting on the Bidens
The Biden family was very much with Delaware on Saturday as friends, family, sympaticos, dignitaries and others gathered in Wilmington for the funeral of Beau Biden. President Obama and many others...
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Final touches for Margaret H. Rollins Nursing School
Contractors are putting final touches on Beebe Healthcare's Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing. The greatly expanded facility will double the capacity for nursing students which Beebe is counting...
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Half Full getting closer to its new location
Adam Schick walked across Second Street in Lewes Friday morning with a new sign for the Half Full restaurant. Half Full has been serving artisanal pizzas at its Market Street location in Lewes -...
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Depending on the weather, traffic in the Lewes area could be very dicey on Saturday this weekend. The girls lacrosse camp that brought more than 100 teams to the Lewes School and Cape Henlopen High...
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Blueberry artistry at the farmers' market, and lacrosse
27 June 2015 • A few days after the summer solstice We walked over to Shields Elementary this morning for the farmers market. Traffic heavy but moving. Some folks headed to buy all kinds of fresh...
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Half Full, Betty's, yoga and sun-soaked Starlight
Sunday 28 June - Writing in the remains of a gorgeous, sun-filled day A thin but solid line of rain clouds swept across Sussex before dawn this morning - a final reminder of Saturday's storms. The...
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Ronald McDonald House serves hundreds of Sussex families each year
7 July 2015 • The waning side of July's full moon Laura Marek stopped by today. We talked about attitude and posture for a while. Steinbeck said those are two qualities that have to be cultivated...
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