Thanks Alexis for the comment. Thanks to everybody else who has posted as well. It’s nice to get feedback….

It was great riding with the Swedes yesterday through Honduras. It’s always fun riding in a group and it reminds me of riding bicycles with a gang of friends when you were a kid. The variety of riding was incredible…we started on cobblestone (my favorite), then dirt (including this powdery fine dirt that’s like soft sand in that short detour we had to take; I almost wrecked!), then beautiful, smooth pavement up and down mountains and across valleys. After that we had hard highway riding, dealing with typical Central American traffic, passing hundreds of cars, trucks, buses, on the right, on the left, however we could. Finally, the capital of Honduras, which I still can’t pronounce (Teguchigalpa, I think). Man, I’ve driven in some pretty wild and crazy places in a car but I’ve never ridden a motorcycle through this. In and out of traffic, lane splitting (those hard cases turned out to be too wide and a detriment; the Swedes had a much easier time), jumping up curbs onto sidewalks, riding through pedestrian only streets. By the time I was done, I was completely soaked in sweat and I felt like my personal temperature guage was well past the red line.

After a couple of beers with Roar and the Swedes, though, I felt better and could appreciate the experience.

We left Tegus around noon and headed to Nicaragua. Beautiful paved roads. The best part was the road from the border at Las Manos south into Nicaragua.

(I almost killed another bird; in Guatemala a yellow and black bird flew across the road and slammed into my visor, which I’m pretty sure killed him; this time some lazy, black bird floated across the roadway and I had time to duck my head and miss him….crazy)

We arrived in Esteli where we met up with the Swedes to talk about our plans. Early night for all of us tired folk.

The plan is to go out to the farm that Ulrich owns tomorrow. Then Friday we head to Managua for a weekend of fun…..