Off to Nicaragua in a few days!

Hi!   It has been a year since we traveled abroad.    Now it is almost 2014 and we will be headed to Nicaragua in two weeks, a new country for us.   Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Central America, so I have a few reservations about this one.    Good news:   it will be warm and sunny there, existing near the Equator.    More good news:   I have an opportunity to share art therapy with new assisted care staff who want to learn to use art with their residents.   Bad news:   We know almost no Spanish, other than "mas cervezas, por favor" (more beer please)!    And there are few tourist facilities.

Oh well, if we "chicken out," we can bus it to Costa Rica, a bordering country rich with tourist facilities and lots of English spoken there.    But I like to think that we are still adventurers, sleeping in hostels, grappling with a new language, and trying lots of new foods and towns.

I'll let you know how it is going after we arrive on January l5.   Cross your fingers for us!