First Glimpse of the Sea

A few fotos from our recent annual Coffee Camp field trip to Leon & the Pacific coast at Poneloya:

We’re all up by 4AM to prepare the food, buses, kids, and families for the big trip; here’s the Planting Hope BiblioMovil and the other bus we hired to carry our 80+ pilgrims:

By mid-morning, we’re passing through the giant western volcano fields, and a thrill passes through the packed BiblioMovil as the kids scan for smoke and fire atop the enormous peaks:

  Here we are disembarking in the crowded streets of the colonial city, Leon:

Confronting the carved lion atop the tomb of national poet Ruben Dario in the 18th-century cathedral:  Heading out to stroll the avenidas:

 Then a different kind of thrill builds as we approach the ocean, which many of these mountain village students have never seen before:  We all stood transfixed by the view of the Pacific; seeing the continent END so abruptly really impressed the students (consider the region they come from, where the mountains go on forever!):