Bus Ride to the Finca

Our trip guide and coffee professor Tim picked us up at 9:30 at the hotel. We Tetris-ed our luggage into the bus and started the 5 hour drive along the al american highway - called NIC-1 here.

We got the full experience with our driver getting pulled by the cops and negotiating the bribe so we could continue and stopped for Tacos at lunch.

Slowly slowly the country side started to get volcano-hilly, but the lush green and many trees had taken over hundreds of years ago. We passed rice fields, tobacco farms (which stood out like a Rolex in a plastic jewelry set) and sang along to the 80 Rock Ballads on our radio😜

When we got to Ocotal we had to switch over to two pickup trucks as the bus would’ve not made the ride to the Finca…and we found out why 😜

The overgrowth threatened to sweep Dirk and Nati out of the truck, the street was a muddy, wet, bumpy ordeal - we loved it 😍🤙🏽

At the finca first order of the day naturally was coffee 😜 …later we would settle in to have our first dinner, but more on that later.Read more