I'm a freelance journalist based in León, Nicaragua. This
website is part travel log, part photo collection and part compilation
of my work as a daily newspaper reporter and freelancer.
The lake, which is about an hour south of Nicaragua's capital,
is a microcosm of sorts.
Our experience here has been strictly as vacationing tourists—vacationing,
that is, in the large, two-bedroom home of a Dutch couple who run
a local business, who go home during the extremely rainy month of
October every year, who have two large dogs and two cats and thus
require a housesitter to watch the animals while they're away. Which
is where Freda and I come in.
Crossing from San Carlos, El Salvador to El Amatillo,
Honduras.
It began with a man hurdling through a median of palm trees. He was
tall, with exquisitely styled hair, dark jeans, a pale blue polo shirt
and a left hand that sliced through the air like an out-of-control
winged insect.
