“No, you aren’t invited!” Tbone looked at me with a blank expression…he is a tough guy to read. I explained that it isn’t him personally, but I had spent months planning this trip for two people, Guthry and myself, and three was a crowd. We had planned to walk along the coast to San Juan [...]
These kids are no older than 12 or 13, but can cast their nets like the pros twenty years their senior. This is typical daily life in villages like Kahkabila, where the people eat what the jungle and the sea provides. I once spoke with the village leader, a middle-aged Miskito indian the locals call [...]
The Rama indians number only a few thousand dispersed throughout ten communities on the southern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. The majority live on the tiny island of Rama Cay, a rock peppered with palm trees and palm roofs. On the south end of the island is the school, on the north, the church. It was [...]
The Moravians? No, they aren’t characters on Star Trek. The Moravian church as an institution has been operating on the Caribbean coast for about 200 years. It was born in what is now Czech Republic in 1457 and, over the centuries, put high value in missionary work. As a result, here on the coast a large [...]
You know, I never could follow everything my mother was saying when I heard her reciting the Lord’s Prayer in church. Now I feel like I understand! save us from satan’s tricks This is hanging on the wall of a schoolroom in the little village of Kahkabila. That wasn’t the only thing noteworthy… in the [...]
Casey, that's who. I have been living on the Caribbean coast since 2008. I love introducing people to this little part of the world!
