5th HOME – Las Colinas, Managua, Nicaragua

Upon arriving in Managua, Nicaragua, in September of 1967, we spent the first 2 months in a suite at the Grand Hotel on Avenida Roosevelt, across from the Managua Cathedral. The Grand Hotel was a well known institution in the center of Managua for many decades, but it was destroyed by the 1972 earthquake that knocked down many of the buildings in central Managua. In November of 1967 we moved into a house that Citi Bank rented for us in the Las Colinas Development, 5 miles southeast of Managua on the highway to Masaya.

At Las Colinas our daughter, Lucy, ran barefoot through the garden and Curtis, who was born in Managua in 1968, learned to swim before he was 1 year old in the community pool next door.