June 18th-July 24th This is the end of our journey; 5 weeks have gone by. After spending the first few days in Managua, we lived and worked alongside the communities of Guadalupe and Samulali in the weeks that followed. In between the repairs of both bridges, we visited Leon with some students from Iowa State who were working with EOS …
TRAVEL TEAM 2017: WEEK 3: SAMULALI BRIDGE REPAIRED
July 3rd – July 9th Howdy y’all! We’ve had quite the week! To begin, we finished the repairs to the bridge in Samulali in record time due mainly in part to the amazingly hard working community members who lent a hand. When we’d carry one board each, they’d carry two and then insist on being first in line to grab …
Travel Team 2017: Week 2: Guadalupe Bridge Repaired
June 26th – July 2nd Hi everyone! We have enjoyed our second week in rural Nicaragua and our repairs on bridge #1 are now complete! This week in Guadalupe, we set the deck on the bridge and put up the fence. We finished cutting the planks and treating them with diesel and salt to better preserve the wood and keep …
TRAVEL TEAM 2017: WEEK 1: THE BEGINNING OF A BRIDGE
June 18th – June 25th Our first week in Nicaragua has gone by and we are already making great progress! After arriving in Nicaragua at the Aeropuerto Internacional Augusto César Sandino in Managua, we stayed at Backpacker’s Inn hostel right in downtown Managua. After a few days in Managua, we were picked up in a truck and taken to Matagalpa, …
Travel Team 2017: Week 0: Pre-Travel Excitement!
Nicaragua, Here We Come! Our 2017 Travel Team is ready and rearing to go! We set out today, Saturday June 17th, for Nicaragua’s capital city, Managua, where we will stay a few days before traveling on to the Northern Highlands of Nicaragua, to San Ramón. This summer, our travel team will be repairing two bridges in the San Ramón region. …