My 10 year old daughter on the slide

Submitted by fyl on 7 November, 2005 - 17:20.
My 10 year old daughter on the slide

This is Mary Luz. She is neither my daughter nor 10 years old. But, she is fun and a friend of Ana. This is in the park in Jinotega.

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Jinotega Trip?

Submitted by VidaVerde on 8 November, 2005 - 02:07.

Fyl,

You went to Jinotega and didn't invite me? What you doing, scouting around up there? Send more pictures! What is the lake like? Any land with lots of water on it for sale?

-Carl

No reason to be offended. :-)

Submitted by Blarg on 8 November, 2005 - 21:24.

Don't be offended, I live 5 minutes from the guy and he didn't invite me. :-)

Three women and a boy

Submitted by fyl on 8 November, 2005 - 10:04.

I only had three women (Ana, Mary Luz and Aracely) plus a 11 year old boy with me. I figured that wasn't enough women to share.

I wanted to get the 1000km on my truck for the first service so it was just a day trip for fun. We will likely do other trips like that around here. Sorta fun to take people whose whole families have never owned a vehicle.

Jinotega is an easy trip on the bus but with five of us, wanting to take photos and such, the car was just more fun.

If I have a decent lake photo I will post it. There are lots of streams along the road from Esteli with virtually no houses and I see no houses near the lake. So, if Jinotega is your thing, I think there are lots of options.

The mountains between Jinotega and Matagalpa are another area to look. Farms and not much else. The mountains get up to about 1600 meters.

The Truck

Submitted by Seybonazo on 9 November, 2005 - 09:15.

Phil,

I'd like to see pictures of the new truck. Do they have Hybrid vehicles there yet? What are the prices?

Thanks in advance.

Ok

Submitted by fyl on 9 November, 2005 - 09:42.

See http://www.nicaliving.com/node/2366 for a photo.

I am not sure if there are hybrids here but, even if there were, I wouldn't buy one. The big issue is getting stuff fixed. Based on that, I saw my vehicle choices as Mitsubishi and Toyota--the only two dealerships here.

The Mitsubishi had lots of pluses for me such as no power windows and generally a less sophisticated design. In other words, stuff that is more common/more easily fixed.

The truck cost $21,700 including tax. Single-cab would have been about $800 less. The Toyota equivalents were more expensive. The single-cab being a bit more than this dual-cab and their dual-cab being about $6000 more.

I like the truck. Ana influenced the dual-cab decision. As the only thing the truck has been used for so far is people, it does seem like the right answer. It is powerful enough to handle the hills but, I think, will do ok in fuel economy.