One of the most important things for us living on Ometepe is our community. We have built strong ties to our neighbors here and want to help them improve their living standards. At the same time, it important that we respect their culture and don’t try and impose our ideas on their lives. So Trevor…
Tag: green building
Five things to know about solar before you purchase
Are you thinking about investing in a solar energy system? There are many reasons to go solar. Maybe you want clean energy or to be self sufficient or perhaps you just want a solar back up system in case of outages. For us, living on an island in Nicaragua, deciding to go solar wasn’t a…
Healthy Beginnings
The wind is blowing and rain is falling. The kitchen is filled with smoke from the wet wood. It is going to take hours for the food to cook on the primitive stove made from a few bricks spaced just far enough for the pot to rest on top. This is the reality of how…
Washing off the road dust
So we are sitting in Laredo, TX waiting to cross the border in the morning. We decided to take a couple of days to finally take care of some housekeeping. It seems like a long time since I last wrote but in reality it has been just about a week. We’ve done a lot and…
Bus Video- Interior
Here’s the video tour of the interior of the bus.
Bus video- Exterior
So we’ve done some videos of the bus. Here is the exterior of the bus. Stay tuned for the interior tour
Checking things off the list
So our mattress arrived and the bedroom is pretty much finished.Trevor installed almost all of the trim and it is starting to look very homey in there. I need to make us some curtains to give us a little privacy and maybe we’ll make some end tables but overall that is one more thing that…
One month left and counting!
Well, it’s snowing outside and we’re anxious to get on the road. The bus is almost finished. Trevor has gotten all the walls up and the frame for the bed completed. I got the reminder call this morning for our mattress delivery on Thursday. All that is left to do in the bedroom is some…
For Christmas we unwrapped the bus!
So as we are getting closer to being finished and our departure date, we have started looking into what we need to get the bus registered and insured to get on the road. We are planning on getting our insurance through National General Insurance who will insure a bus converted to an RV. When we…
El Jardin de la Vida 