Honduras

alisa on October 31st, 2010

This week Chilly White of Enduro360.com interviewed me about my Mexico-Central-South America Ride. Click here for the full interview and see the pictures below. [Oops, he still has not published the article, yet I do not want to remove from my posts and have a non-working link} Many of them are new and never published.

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alisa on January 22nd, 2010

Saturday George picked me up, we met up with Eduardo, and headed out of San Pedro. On the way out of town we caught up with 3 Guatemalan riders who, curiously enough, had heard about me & my trip through the flurry of emails throughout Central America. We all rode together to Copan Ruinas, which [...]

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alisa on January 22nd, 2010

I updated my original post, as George corrected me. The bales that get spat out from the metal machine (wasn’t that cool???) are 300 lbs. The copper bales weigh 4000 lbs [edited: ]and are worth $12,000. My mistake. But while riding today I remembered another thing George told me: ever wonder why so many storm [...]

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alisa on January 21st, 2010

Anyone that has visited Central America knows that trash is a REAL problem…indigenous peoples have not been taught the difference between throwing a banana peel in the forest from throwing a coke bottle…many countries lack the find / resources / facilities for organized trash collection…many people are starving or just barely surviving…why should they care [...]

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alisa on January 20th, 2010

Thursday January 7, 2010 I spent the night in the COLD! mountain town of La Palma…just shy of the El Salvador / Honduran Border. The plan was to spend the night close to the border, cross over super early, and go see the Copan ruins on the way to San Pedro Sula. The nice fellow [...]

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