Happy Father's Day to me! I can't think of a better way to spend the day than with my girls in Nicaragua. Breakfast as usual at the hotel, all the staff fawning over MD...Another 15 minutes and 4 hotel staff consulting on directions to Pueblos Blancos, and we're off on another day's adventure. I decide along the way to make a small detour at Mombacho, remembering that there is a fairly famous coffee plantation halfway up the mountain side; Las Flo...

So no need for an alarm clock here, the room is pitch black but not very sound proof from the courtyard even though we are in the corner. Between the rooster and plates clinging together because we are near the kitchen, everyone was up by 7 and some of us (me) even earlier...the locals get up with the sun, when in Rome, do as the Romans.Typically we are opposed to arranging anything through hotels or tour guides and prefer to find our own way because there are us...

What a start to our day! 3 hours of sleep last night due to our standard last minute rush around for items, and Jarrod's review of 2 weeks of Heather's packing...5am! Up and at 'em! It was an uneventful Trip to the airport, but holy cow, there were like 5000 people at the airport already...and one of the workers tried to tell me that we should have been there 4 hours early...my response, "hire more people." So there are advantages to traveling with a ...