Dan Downing
In case others have started to wonder, as I have…
Closest Linda and I have gotten is Costa Rica’s northwestern border, to see the giant turtles laying their eggs on the deserted, sandy beaches on the Carribean.
And here are pictures of the school Matt and Hil are attending.
michael
Great map, Dan. It is interesting to see where Esteli is. I thought it was closer to the coast. And thereÃs Leon where they are headed next weekend. So where is this weekends destination, Miraflor?
smiling
Voila Miraflor… as seen through the eyes of a former student of Esuela Horizonte.
And if you poke around his links you will even find a photogrpah of the Directora, Edgelina Lanuza.
peter
Amazing what a map will do to further settle the heart. Thanks Dan.
So what an amazing landing Matt and Hil have had in their entry into this New World. And furthermore, what searing imaginations some of us possess for generating other scenarios of what this landing could have involved.
However, Matt could have elaborated on the “harrassment” toward Hil, or simply left that point out. In Japan, people would come up to friends of mine while we were talking or at a market, and simply start touching the blond hair in sheer amazement, but that was not harrassment, just their encounter with alien material growing out of ostensibly human heads.
And my eyes? It was thought that they might really be marbles.
rakkity
My thought that the “harassment” might be good-natured (though backward and so 20th centuryish) ogling and whistling, which is still common in Latin American and Mediterranean countries.
michael
That’s how Matt described it, leaving out the good-natured part. Hil is resilient, but it will be interesting to debrief her when she returns. A twenty-first century girl in Acton gets none of that.
brown eyes
Peter, I’ve only seen pictures, but I do believe your eyes are marbles.
esteli
I thought it was closer to the coast too.