We’re in Tegucigalpa, Honduras now. After crossing the border and seeing the wonderful ruins at Copán (where I took lots of photos that I can’t upload now hehe) we sort of followed a couple of Swedes we met at the border crossing, Ulrich and Olvar (if I mis-spelled their names i don’t care… they’re only Swedes after all ;)

Los suecos told us about some hot springs by Gracias so we went there… kind of late we thought but the spot filled up and was kind of happening, didn’t find the Swedes though. The tricycle taxi out there was about 20 minutes of bumpy dirt roads and the driver promised he would be back by 22:00. We were chilling with a few beers, chatting with some locals. Around 22:00 we walked back to the parking lot… no taxi… shit! Asking around it was clear walking was a 90 minute endeavour and not a good idea at night. So we hitched a ride in the back of a pickup-truck with a drunkish dude and his two girlsfriends… Thanks!!

The Swedes showed us a hotel in Tegucigalpa and we went out with them last night to locals-only spots… cool… Andy is still recovering.

Ulrich owns a farm in Nicaragua and told us we could stay there so we will… he promised hard beds and MONKEYS!!

Today we head for Nicaragua, I don’t know how far we’ll get but if we can get to the farm that would be great… and then for Managua. Ulrich has great things to say about Nicaragua so we may stay for a while and kind of skip Costa Rica like we kind of skipped Honduras… I might like Honduras much better if a little girl didn’t throw stuff at me while riding through her town… bastard!

The riding yesterday was awesome! Really good twisty roads with clean asphalt, then miles and miles of new higway construction, the kind where they just carved the road out of the mountains and it’s still just dirt and gravel everywhere and huge construction equipment rolling around… really, we were riding through miles and miles of active highway construction. Then we came to a part where they were still constructing a bridge so we had to detour through dirt-roads in the forrest… I’m glad I didn’t fall over!

More twisties before we went through the traffic of Tegucigalpa where we did some of the nuttiest city driving I’ve ever done, we even went up on the sidewalk and across a pedestrians-only street! The cop made Andy promise to never do it again (at least to walk the bike across next time) before he helped us get past these trucks blocking our way by riding 50 meters on the sidewalk… cool cops!

I’m looking forward to Nicaragua! We may stay for a while since we have a local guide of sorts in Ulrich…. then we may just blast through Costa Rica as we cross into Panama on the Atlantic side which is supposed to be the best roads, the smallest border corssing and a crazy bridge to get across. :)

As an update to my random observations I must say that we had lots more animals in the road, we rode through a little herd of cattle, sort of herding them for a bit, and almost ran over a few pigs… but the weirdest thing I think was another staggering drunk guy walking along the road at least 20 miles from the nearest town all dressed for business carrying a brief-case. Tough job I guess!

All my best to family and friends!

I actually don’t know what day today is… good!

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