On a cloudy day, La Costena Airlines carries me from Managua to Bluefields on the Caribbean coast as I watch the beautiful patchwork quilt of Nicaragua unfold below us. Nicaragua is about the size of New York state and the plane is about half way to the east coast.
29 October 2012
16 October 2012
Digesting the world
Aside from a language barrier which hindered explanations, there was some confusion about the size and shape of the world and where False Bluff was in it. Or where Bluefields was, or Managua, or Kukra Hill - to say nothing of Richmond, Virginia, USA, or Canada, or Germany. And distances were a mystery.
So a world map from Barnes and Noble got a coat of polyurethane and was then attached to a wall in the kitchen like wallpaper.
It's been instructive and helpful.
So a world map from Barnes and Noble got a coat of polyurethane and was then attached to a wall in the kitchen like wallpaper.
It's been instructive and helpful.
02 October 2012
The (real) White House
Pink shutters and doors show up really well against a white background. The work of putting a first coat on the house went surprisingly fast. Some of the flamingo pink woodwork got a second coat.
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