The Stinky Girl Travels

Here is my very belated post about the excursion we took back in December to Esteli and Somoto, up in the northern mountainous part of Nicaragua. Our trip started out with an unexpected twist. Early in the morning, we all met el terminal to catch a microbus to Esteli, but ran into a problem when the bus driver told us that the next microbus to Esteli would be coming around 11:00am, even though Vanessa was certain that there was supposed to be a bus arriving before that. However, after waiting for another half hour, we decided not to take our chances and wait for a bus that may never come. So instead of a nice, comfortable journey in a microbus where we would each have our own seat, the four of us squished into the back of a taxi and sat there crammed together for the next few hours. Four people in the back of a taxi does not sound that bad, but when the journey is a few hours long and when two of those four people happen to be very tall, you are in for a very uncomfortable ride! W...