https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:23:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/two-weeks-of-beaches/ Fri, 04 Nov 2016 23:37:20 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=20956   November 4th, 2016 So it was early afternoon in Granada and stinking hot.  There are no camping spots in Granada with electricity so we wimped out and decided not to spend a night here. We headed back to the Pacific to a town called Popoyo which is not much of a town but the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/inland-nica/ Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:38:20 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=20846   October 31st, 2016 Calvin met us at the airport when we landed from the Corn Islands and took us back to the hostel, where we found Tigger safe and sound but very annoyingly leaking from the bathroom ceiling vent again! We unpacked, went for a walk looking for a few needed items and then […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/on-to-the-corn-islands/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:56:17 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=20770   October 27th, 2016 It was about a two hour drive from Las Peñitas, give or take to Managua, Nica’s capital and largest city located on the shores of Lake Managua (which we understand is quite polluted). Nica has many good sized lakes including Central America’s largest: Lake Nicaragua. Enroute we encountered a police checkpoint […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/on-the-good-roads-in-nica/ Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:38:14 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=20726   October 20th, 2016 We approached the HND/NICA border around 10AM. About a kilometre before even reaching the border, we encountered tractor trailers lining both sides of the road pointed in both directions; this was different. We learned later it can take a looooooong ass time for these guys to get across. After stopping at […]]]>