We left Sunday morning at 6 am, via our trusty cab driver Blandford, for our 2 pm flight in Managua. The trip to Managua is only about 3 hours, however, we left early so that we would be able to stop in a town called Caterina so that I could buy some Hammocks. It was lucky that we were with our cab driver on this day since his car was severely overheating and he seemed to be unaware that cooling fluid was necessary to remedy the problem. He thought that we would be able to make it the remaining 10 km's to Caterina. Seeing that the car's temperature gauge was redlining, we managed to get him to stop at service station so that we could get some coolant for the car. We luckily got some coolant into the car and the temperature steadily made it's way back to a normal state of operation. *Phew* We left the service station and headed down the road toward Caterina. We were passing a small rural area along a straight stretch of the Pan-American. A small boy and his bigger sister were playing along the side of the road in front of their family who was walking behind about 10 or 15 feet. Suddenly, the small boy jumped out into the lane that were driving in just before we passed them. Our driver, like a cat, swerved to the left at the same time that the young boy's sister pulled the boy back over to the side of the road. The car missed the boy by mere inches, at best. Our driver stopped the car and took a few moments to collect himself. I have never been in a situation like that before. It was a terrifying experience. Luckily... our driver had an amazing reaction time and the little girl pulled her brother just in time. What a morning...
We made it safely to Caterina and had breakfast. I bought two hammocks and two hammock chairs which I plan on installing in my house when I get back. We proceeded on to Managua and successfully made it onto our flight at 2 pm. I was originally supposed to leave on March 3rd, however since my mom came down for the week she managed to change my flights so that I could come home with her to make the traveling process easier on the both of us. Unfortunately, as a result of the last minute flight alteration, our new itinerary now included 4 flights instead of 2. We flew 2.5 hours from Managua to Miami and spent had a 4.5 hour layover until our flight to New Orleans. We made it to New Orleans at about 12 am and had a 6 hour layover. It was an interesting layover. Unfortunately the designers of the New Orleans airport worked very hard to make an airport that is as close as you can get to a place in which no quality sleep can be obtained by the patrons which frequent it. It was a funny situation, all of the individuals with the overnight layover all trying to sleep in the same lobby area in the same awkward benches. It reminded me of that scene in Men In Black where Will Smith is and a bunch of other candidates are trying to write a test in the most awkwardly shaped chairs. It was funny to watch all of the different people try to sleep in these abnormally uncomfortable chairs during their layover. After the layover we proceeded to Dallas-Fort-Worth and then from there to Vancouver to finish our interesting milk run of a flight home. I proceeded from the Vancouver airport to the Victoria harbor via the sea plane and took the bus to my house in Victoria. All in all, I got home at 5:20 pm on Monday. Approximately 36 hours of traveling time. Not too shabby. I'm going to catch up on some sleep for the next few days. But I am thinking of starting a new blog for publishing new music that I make. I'm not really too sure if that will happen, so let me know what you think by leaving me a comment on this post. I thank everyone who took any interest in this blog over the course of my trip and I look forward to seeing everyone now that I'm back home.From Canada, this is CJAM.
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