haley+gabe

Hi friends. After some time without a wedding ring or a working website, I’ve finally gotten both taken care of. … So you’ll see lots of posts all at once. I won’t be upset if you don’t read ’em all, this blog is as much for my memory as for your entertainment… Got my new ring today and got the blog back up yesterday. If you have any issues with it, try deleting your cookies in your browser and if you still have problems please tell me so I can try to fix it. Other than these two news items, other things have also happened. We are hoping to move on to our next adventure next week and we think we are getting close to knowing what that adventure might be. Most likely it has something to do with Costa Rica, but you never know. Just yesterday we got a response for a workaway host that they would have room for us in Patagonia, Argentina at this amazing looking sheep farm hotel place (Bahia Bustamante). This got me very excited, but we are still checking to make sure it can happen logistically. Today we are heading up to Padre Ramos with O+O for some fun time near a beach and volcano. The other nite we had an in house concert by an amazing Nicaraguan guitarista.

We also played a little baseball with La Kenna. This was very fun.

1 Kenna looking mean

danteeeeeeeeeeeeee.. miss you bro. happy bday

Sitting/ lying in the mirador at Zopilote with a sheet for our makeshift shade. Many things have happened since I last posted and hopefully I can remember most of them. I’ll write reverse chronological order this time. We arrived in Ometepe last night after a long day and were greeted by a bunch of dirty hippies at Finca Zopilote.

view of volcan concepcion from the mirador at zopilote

concepcion from the boat leaving the island

Before that we saw Contagion in Leon with Oli + Ofe. The ac and company were nice but the movie was not. Before that we had one of the best weekends ever at La Bahia Eco-resort on the beach near Chinandega. The owners of La Bahia might be the best hosts of all time as we felt like kings and queens the whole time we were there. We surfed and swam and dipped in the pool. I ate lobster with no reaction. We pretty much walked around with our jaws dropped 90% of the time. In case you can’t tell, we highly recommend it if you are looking for your next awesome vacation spot. Only one issue: during a beautiful morning of surf with Jimmy and Lisa and Olin and Holly Beck, my wedding ring slipped off and fell into the not so clear waters of the Pacific. We looked and looked but it was gone, probably still getting pushed around with the waves in the bay. Ironically we had also chosen to celebrate our 7^th anniversary at La Bahia so the ring made it through 7 years of life and surf but wanted to stay at La Bahia. Hard to blame it, we wanted to stay too.

11/11/11 11:11:11am on the beach north of La Bahia

La Bahia

La Bahia sunrise

Before all of this, we spent some QT with O+O+Kenna in Leon while trying to figure out our next move and we still are. Currently we are working our planning our immediately future as in what are we going to do tomorrow? And where will we sleep? Rub dirt on our bodies and grow dreads or maybe look for something a bit less rustico.

Also at some point before now we went to a fun baseball game with Oli in Leon.

baseball game in leon with 1$ beer and $1.50 field level seats

p.s. Although we were hiding from the sun when I first started writing, we are now in our cabin hiding from a torrential downpour.