Hiking up a volcano sounds completely crazy, but don't worry it's an extinct one. This has been the centerpiece of this trip from its inception, when a co worker heard me talking about my last trip to Nicaragua and told me about this island in Lake Nicaragua called Ometepe that I should go to. The island consists of two volcanoes, one active, one extinct, joined buy a narrow isthmus, covered in coffee plantations and ancient petroglyphs and accessible only by ferry from San Jorge or Granada. Putting this crazy adventure in the middle of my trip and being able to get rides to and from the ferry dock from people I already know in Nicaragua (our hosts at both the Apoyo Lodge and Costa Dulce) seemed like the best idea. But, the Apoyo Lodge is booked through the 24th, a day after I had hoped to arrive, then there's a one day gap before another group is considering booking it. This wouldn't be a big deal except I'm trying to align my trip with something. I want to wind up at Costa Dulce on the 27th or the 28th when a friend may be there.
Going to the volcano island straight from the airport in Managua is not an option. It's too far and there are too many modes of transportation required (cab-ferry-bike-feet). But going to the crater lake for just one day before going to the volcano island defeats the purpose almost. Another reason for starting there this time is that we didn't get but half a day and one night there the last time...and that wasn't nearly enough time for such a gorgeous locale.
I mean, papaya trees on the property, a resident yoga instructor, a beautiful outdoor yoga platform and a 23,000 year old crater lake in which you can float in an inner tube. How can I miss out on that?
So, in typing this out, I realized what makes the most sense is to start my trip on the 24th, the one day that Apoyo is free and stay there one night, travel to Ometepe the next day, spend the same amount of days there as I was going to originally, then go to Costa Dulce, arriving there on the 27th or 28th, spend 3 nights there and then go back to Apoyo and spend 2 more nights.
Perhaps. I have to write the Apoyo people a few months from now closer to the dates to see if anything has changed. And see if I can even stay there on the last few days of my trip. I still need to type an email to the hotel on Ometepe that I've zeroed in on, though, so there's yet more planning to be done.
Anyhow, this and budgeting for the trip has gotten me excited about my little light at the end of the tunnel. Sure there's fun to be had between now and then, summer weather to be enjoyed, other trips to take. But it's nice to have the thought of going back and having another adventure to tide me over until then. And to help me with bracing myself for all the work that's ahead. A month and a half more of CNN, still working at truTV, the current film score and all the other potential projects coming up.
Voice over is on a bit of a hiatus, or maybe just a lull, while I figure out things. I let my membership to Voice123.com lapse and may not subscribe again for a while, so I won't be doing as many auditions. I'm waiting to hear back from an agent though...and man I hate talking about that because it's probably nothing and I don't want to get my hopes up. I had a co worker here at NY1 in Creative Services send my demo on to a few agents in the city and only one got back to him, so far, just saying that he wanted to give him some feedback on my voice. Whatever that means.
At any rate, I have a wedding to go to tomorrow so I'm going to actually take an entire day where I don't do any work on anything. Which is cool because I was thinking I'd need it, what with all the extra freelance work at CNN and truTV, and then this came up. A friend of mine from the college days was planning on going to our friend's wedding out on Long Island and asked to stay with me in the days leading up to it and asked if I wanted to go, too. So I managed to get the day off from CNN and bought myself a suit. I'm not looking forward to traveling back from Long Island late at night...nor am I looking forward to wearing a suit in hot weather. But I do want to look good.
Not much else to report tonight. Just wanted to get all that out. Maybe I'll have some insight into my writing process on the next blog. For now though, I'm just going to enjoy a too short weekend and an old friend's wedding.
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