Courtesy of Damien Cave’s twitter feed, I found this 2006 article from Matthew Power. He took a canoe down the San Juan River, the most-mooted route of the new Nicaragua Canal project.
I want to go! Although I will probably take the motorboat. I just had a bit of a tussle with climbing in the rain, following a boxing match gone wrong. As a 40-something father, I think I might be done with the macho tip. Maybe. I hope.
(Not counting future trips to crime-ridden parts of Mexico or war zones in Colombia or a return to the old Jalalabad PRT territory. Those would be for purely intellectual reasons.)
Anyway, go read the article! It is a very good travel piece, and if it doesn’t make you want to go, then nothing will. Of course, considering as I believe my own argument, there is no rush: the river will be there and be green for a while to come.
UPDATE: Yes, an update before I even hit “publish”! It appears as though the HKND group has ruled out a San Juan River route. Smart! I still do not think it will happen, but the probability of success just ticked up a tiny bit.
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