Archive for March, 2008
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
More Pics of Ulrich’s Farm
Walking down from the house under construction to the existing farmhouse
Every time we had a meal we ate outside and the farm dogs would come to stand with these pathetic beggar faces waiting for scraps. They were well behaved and didn’t try to jump on you or anything. They just stood and waited. Of course, [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Nicaragua by andy
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Border Crossing
There are two ways to cross the border from San Carlos, Nicaragua to Los Chiles, Costa Rica. One is to take a small boat from San Carlos on a 90 minute trip through the jungle. The other way is to drive 30-60 minutes east of San Carlos, catch a large ferry that can take trucks [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Costa Rica, Nicaragua by andy
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Photos!
We’re happy in the back of a pickup-truck that gave us a ride from the hot-springs in Gracias, Honduras. They saved us from a 90 minutes walk in pitch-dark wilderness after our taxi abandoned us.
Riding through some new highway construction. We’ve done a lot of miles on this sort of stuff and I’m sure the [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Costa Rica, Nicaragua by Roar Flolo
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Dirt!
Oh, on the way out from Managua the cops stopped us for crossing over the solid yellow line to pass a truck. There are tons of checkpoints throughout the country and we’ve only been stopped before throughout Latin America so that the cops could check out our documents or the bikes or both.
This time the [...]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
More Nicaragua
Last Thursday, we left Esteli with the Swedes and headed out to Ulrich’s farm, which is located about 30 minutes east of Matagalpa, Nicaragua.
He has a working farm whose main focus is cattle. This farm was Nicaraguan style where the animals and humans coexist. The main farmhouse was a simple wooden structure with no electricity [...]
