ABOUT THE AUTHORS JOSHUA BERMAN & RANDY WOOD
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Raised by flower children in the wilds of West Virginia, Joshua Berman moved to Long Island, New York at the age of 12. At 18, he made the first of many cross-country road trips, then spent four years at Brown University where he gained both a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and appropriately creative facial hair.
Joshua is currently a freelance writer and trip leader who has spent much of the last 10 years living, working, and traveling throughout Central America. His love affair with the region began when he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua, where he worked on various environmental education, disaster relief, and agricultural projects—and where he and Randy Wood first joined forces as co-editors of Peace Corps Nicaragua’s quarterly magazine.
Joshua—known in Nicaragua as “Josué”—continues to travel the world, and his various careers have included Outward Bound Instructor, Park Service firefighter, and Alternative Breaks group leader.
His latest journey—into the unchartered territory of marriage—began during the research of this book, when he proposed to fellow Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Sutay Berman, at a waterfall in Matagalpa. When last seen, the happy couple was headed to northern India with the American Jewish World Service Volunteer Corps.
In addition to Moon Handbooks Nicaragua, Joshua is co-author of Moon Handbooks Belize and contributed text and photos to the fourth edition of Moon Handbooks Honduras. His articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, EcoAmericas, Hooked On the Outdoors, Transitions Abroad, Gravity, Backcountry, and Emergency Medical Services magazines.
His website is blog.joshuaberman.net.
Other travel guides authored by Joshua Berman:
Moon Belize
Moon Living Abroad in Nicaragua
 Born on the sandy shore of New York’s Atlantic coast, Randy Wood spent his childhood in various small sailboats developing a mariner’s curiosity for what lies over the horizon. His first opportunity to find out came at the age of 11, when his family ventured from New York to California in a beat-up Volkswagen bus. He has explored ever since, venturing from the salmon boats of Ketchikan, Alaska to the Bolivian Andes, and from the volcanoes of Java to the turquoise seas of Sicily.
He first ventured to Nicaragua in 1998, where he made his home for the next five years while working as an agronomist and engineer. When Hurricane Mitch swept away the only bridge that led to his mountain village, he found himself marooned for several days; his Nica friends still laugh that he was the first one to cross the storm-swollen river because he was the best swimmer and, at 6’2”, tall enough to touch bottom. Afterwards he stayed in the country to help with the Hurricane Mitch reconstruction program, also falling in love with and marrying Nicaraguan Ericka Briceño. They returned briefly to the United States, where he completed a Masters’ Degree in Development Economics and International Relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS in 2005. He and Ericka continue to live part-time in Nicaragua.
In his limited free time, Randy enjoys playing 12-string folk guitar, swimming and surfing, salsa, and swing dancing, backpacking, making maps, and fiddling with Linux-based computers. He remains an insufferable gearhead whose challenge to find the perfect backpack and tango its contents continues unabated. His work has appeared in BC Journal of International Relations, Between the Waves Magazine, and SAIS Review.
Randy’s website is www.therandymon.com.
Other travel guides authored by Randy Wood:
Moon Living Abroad in Nicaragua
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