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.

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On the Strange Little Universe of Laguna de Apoyo

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.














































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