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.
18 February 2018
I'm stuck with a bucket of water....
...and a pile of sand while everybody else is swimming. The Caribbean's behind me with really high waves today and nobody'll give me a surf board.