I met a really nice Finnish couple in Estelí, and after talking with them at a café for a while, they suggested we go get check out a cool bar in town later that night. I said sure, that that sounded fine, and that I would meet them at the café at eight, and we would leave from there. Eight o’clock rolled around, and we met up. They had met another, French, couple at their hotel and they had come along to see the place as well. We went over to the Parque Central, where taxis were most likely to come passing by. We spotted one, and it stopped in the middle of the intersection to wait for us. This is an important fact.

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Questions I have about Nicaragua that will never be answered:

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Want to know one of my favorite things about Latin America? I’ll give you a hint. It’s dirty, colorful, noisy, and moves at about a thousand miles an hour all the time.

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You think this is a Mastercard commercial? Think again...

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I’ve been in Nicaragua for about a month and a week now, which means I’ve officially crossed over into the second half of my trip. It’s sort of strange. Before, when people told me that they had been traveling for over a month, I found it hard to believe that could ever be me. It seemed so far away. Now, when I tell people that I’ve been moving, by myself, for as long as I have, they say, “Wow, that’s a while.”

Yeah, I guess it is. But it’s not over yet. However, in celebration of the completion of the first half of my trip, I’d thought I’d compile a little numbers list, a collection of the hard facts (okay, so I may have stretched the truth on some of these, but not as many as you might think) that have made this trip what it is.

6: The number of once-a-week anti-malarial tablets I’ve taken. From one week before I left to this morning.

0: The number of hotels or hostels I’ve been at where the internet hasn’t crashed or cut out once.

8: The highest number of different people I’ve had to ask to find just one building.

68: The number of geckos watched crawling along hostel walls like moths to a light.

They stretched, and one did a few pushups in the sand to show off.

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A few days ago they celebrated Father's Day - “El día del Padre” - in Nicaragua. Witnessing the celebration here, however, was just a little bit different than our standard US Father's Day.

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