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Did Mark Twain visit Nicaragua other than the 1866 trip?
I visited San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua last month and the Victoria hotel there has a "Mark Twain's Suite." They do not explicitly say he stayed there on their website but it is implied and someone there told me he did. There are also traveler websites that claim he stayed there but no scholarly sources. However, two sources say the hotel was build in 1900 or 1902. I think he made a later trip from New York to San Franciso but took the Panama route. But was there another trip?
I can't answer about Nicaragua, but I am starting to wonder whether in his last decade Mark Twain may have had teleportation abilities.
The King Edward Hotel ("The King Eddy") in Toronto, Canada, opened in 1903, and continues to state that Mark Twain was among its famous guests, even though his last visit to Toronto was in 1885.
Among the many fake Mark Twain relics I've been offered (cigar boxes, pens, a trunk, a chair or two, a guitar, a gold watch, etc.) there was an iron bed he slept in "from a roadside inn where he stayed every time he visited Nebraska" and a jukebox in Waco, Texas that he fed nickels every time he was in Texas.
There are no structures of that era left in San Juan Del Sur (been there many times.) Clemens own account (for Alta, CA. newspaper) describes remaining on ship in harbor because of a cholera scare before going directly by mule train on the short overland transit to cross Lake Nicaragua by steamer then down the Rio San Juan to the Atlantic. He never returned to Nicaragua. Jon Kerr PS I do however confess to adding to Twain's very fictional transports in that region. "Mark Twain & The River of Timeless Temptation," Ol Man River Press, 2017.