Lucas and Henry built a fort. They spent several weeks spending hours in the woods with their friend Tye building the fort and playing in it. Fort building is a great way to learn by playing. There are several skills you can learn from fort building. Team-building- Lucas, Henry, and Tye all had roles in building the fort. Lucas was…
We arrived in Nicaragua at the end of February. We had a flight booked to go to Mexico at the end of March. Six months later we are now saying goodbye to Nicaragua. It is bittersweet to be leaving this beautiful country, but we are excited to start a new adventure. We are flying back to the United States for…
We have been traveling now for about 9 months. One of the things we were most looking forward to about long term travel was meeting people. COVID has made meeting new people more challenging, but we have met a lot of wonderful people on our travels so far. For the last three months, the boys have been hanging out with…
We are eating well in Nicaragua. People ask us if we miss American food. We can eat just about everything here that we ate at home, so no (except Chic-fil-a and berries). We are sad when we see our friends in the US going berry picking. Berries are still hard to come by here. We did find frozen berries for…
Since we left for Central America in February the four of us have been together every day. We are not sick of each other yet, but everyone once in a while we need to have some space, and Michael and I need a date night. We have had several date nights since we have been traveling. The boys are old…
We took our kids out of public school last year. We were living with my (Judy) sister. Michael was going through cancer treatments and I was still working full time. We deregistered the kids at the end of the 2018-2019 school year. We could have put them back in school when we found out our trip was delayed, but that…
We took a road trip on a Wednesday to visit Laguna de Apoyo. About the Lake Laguna de Apoyo is a crater lake. It was formed over 20,000 years ago when a volcano imploded and filled over time with water. A chain of Volcanos runs through Nicaragua from North to South. It is located between the Mombacho Volcano and the…
We watched the documentary Minimalism last night on Netflix. It was not earth-shattering for us because we have already begun to minimize our lives, but it did reinforce the decisions we have made and are making in our lives. We have two suitcases and four backpacks worth of stuff with us right now in Nicaragua. We have been gone for…
We ventured 30 minutes south of San Juan Del Sur to Playa La Flor. It is a natural wildlife reserve where Olive Ridley sea turtles come to lay eggs between July and January every year. It is a beautiful white sand beach that is not marred by hotels and restaurants. The area is protected by the Ministry of Environment and…
The wind in your hair, the sun on your face, and the pain in your legs and butt. It sounds glamorous, we know. The kids have been taking horseback riding lessons for a month now. The kids love it, so we decided to take a family horseback riding adventure. We went to Big Sky Ranch where the kids have their…