San Rafael Del Norte (Drive Day 67 minus 14 years)

This little girl reminds me that thirty years ago Yanina-the-Sandinista-publisher’s-wife was still nursing me through the fevers of malaria. I dig out my mother’s journal and in her cryptic, emotionless documentation is more a ships’ log cataloging disasters than Dear Diary.
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