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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
The Next Steps
Friday evening, I took my bike apart in front of the hotel and removed the fan motor. I tested it and only black smoke fizzled from it. Ok, now I knew for sure that the motor was shot. On Saturday morning, I went to the Kawasaki dealership and they told me that the $500 assembly would take a [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Panama by andy
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Stuck!
We spent three days in David, Panama. Our goal was to find a motorcycle shop to fix the steering head problems with Roar’s bike. Also, my bike was starting to get hot and was making rattling noises. We lucked out and ran into an American expat who helped us out tremendously. Paul lived about twenty [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Panama by andy
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Bocas del Toro
We spent three days at Bocas, a bunch of tropical jungle covered islands off the northeastern coast of Panama. There is a large expat presence on the main island (El Colon) and a large number of backpackers congregate here. There is a party somewhere every night and the people remind me of the type of [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Panama by andy
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Last part of Coast Rica, Border Crossing
We left Puerto Viejo on a paved two lane highway through the jungle. No shoulders, just jungle ready to encroach upon the road if workers with machetes forgot to keep it back. Sometimes the landscape would open up to reveal large farms of banana trees, making everything seem even more primordial. It was only about [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Costa Rica,Panama by andy
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Costa Rica
This was my second time in Costa Rica and I am still impressed by how nice it is. The country is beautiful, the roads are nice, and people really take pride in their houses, yards, and stores. It’s a nice place and it’s no surprise that so many tourists go there. However, that doesn’t make [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Costa Rica by andy
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Nicaragua by andy
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 [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Nicaragua by andy
Friday, February 29th, 2008
More Pics
Our beautiful hotel in Antigua, Guatemala The view from the terrace of the hotel in Antigua Ramon, Roar, and Lucila planning our off road route in Guatemala City On the roads from Guatemala City to Escuipulas, Guatemala It’s common for people to get their vehicles decorated in Esquipulas so we tried to blend in, too. [...]
