El Doc

Now I can only see out the sides of the plane on final, which is supposed to be how you bring one in if your windshield is covered in fresh bird guts, not for routine VFR approaches on clear sunny days, so I watch the ground come up on the sides as we approach what I can only assume is the field (if you put a cat in a box, then close the lid, does the cat disappear? Did Schrödinger ever hear of an instrument approach?). Everything is whizzing by ... water, water, more water, getting a little ...

The Corn Islands (pronounced: Karn AYE-lands) are only an hour and a half and $160 away from Managua (round trip). A turbo-prop puddle jumper from the domestic terminal and it's smooth sailing at 10,000 feet (I know, cuz I was watching the instruments over the pilot's shoulder the whole time while he was reading a newspaper that covered the entire front windscreen); you ...