Mexico & Central America
January 25, 2010 Last night Igor Skyped me to see where I was at (we’d met in Honduras New Year’s Day and rode together with Mario). Turned out he was already in Panama City, and was wondering if I was close by. He wanted to ride into the Darien and thought it might be better [...]
January 23, 2010 I got an early start, but not too early since I’d been advised the border offices did not open until 8:30 am. The Costa Rican side was a breeze…here is my bike at the Panamanian side… It was a little confusing…like usual. When I finally finished my paperwork and went back to [...]
January 18-19, 2010 Costa Rica is so Americanized they’ll accept US Dollars or Colones. $1 = ~550 colones It was some strange math to wrap my brain around. <> The room at Playas del Coco was clean, inexpensive ($20/night) and beachfront, and since i was still thinking I had plenty fo time to get to [...]
January 15, 2009 Welcome to Gringo Costa Rica I left Granada early, as usual, and figured it would take me about two hours to get to the border. Leaving Granada Flat. Hot. Agricultural. the wind started to pick up. And now it was a steady force to be reckoned with… I passed swanky Nicarauga…the whole [...]
[January 13-14-15: Nicaragua] [yes, I am going back in time trying to get caught up on the blog] I was hot. I’d ridden through some invisible curtain and the temps soared while the humidity rose. Dang, it’s just plain UNCOMFORTABLE in a full-on riding suit. So I was irritable, my memory wasn’t helping me to [...]
January 28, 2010 It’s weird…I really miss my bike. She’s all bound up and ready to fly to Bogota. My flight is at 11:00 today (Thurs 1/18/10). Bye, sweetie, see you on the other side…
Dan Bard just had an article published in the “Motorcycle Times” on my trip… It’s a PDF Motorcycle times article on Alisa (MotoAdventureGal)
Tuesday January 12th [Well, I just spent an hour on this post and realized I am repeating myself...I will leave it because it represents a LOT of work!] Luckily this border crossing into Nicaragua was pretty straightforward. I got pestered by the “helpers” at the gas station before the border, and they continued to follow [...]
We rode in, we rode out, we had an excellent adventure. More details to follow…
