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10:24am was when we were back on the road after crossing from Nicaragua to Costa Rica.As soon as we arrived at the border, a young man attached himself to us and proceeded to act as our guide through the paperwork jungle that is Nicaragua. I stayed with the bike except …

The good: Room has airconditioning, there’s a poolThe bad: The room has no window! and it is small and relatively expensive.It turned out that the pool was indoor- inside the restaurant which was a big warehouse like building. The entire pool was over my head but it had a swim-up …

finished 11:00amThe immigration office was packed. They had every wicket open (4 of them) Two young boys took it upon themselves to be our guide’s and bike guards. One boy stayed with the bike and the other took us into immigration and motioned for us to get in a line. …

We left at 8:00 am hoping for a better start than yesterday morning. Carretera a Guasaule Choluteca Mist 26

It was in this little village that Bill dropped the bike for the first time. Neither us nor the bike was hurt, but it required a local family to come out of their house and help us get the bike back on its wheels.Again our gps had failed us. It …

We arrived about 3:20 hot and tired after being on the road since 8:00 am this morning. This hotel was on the border side of Cholute a. I saw the billboards for it on the opposite side of town so thought we’d be out of luck. However, there it was …

So my Navigator had us taking little tiny roads that barely show up on Google maps. Google maps suggested taking the main highway CA11A which we had taken from Gracious to LA Esperanza.Needless to say we took the main highway. BAD MOVE! It was a brand new highway coming in …

Stopped here for lunch at a buffet near central park. Everyone was so friendly Bill had quite a conversation with a man at the next table and when we were getting ready to leave on the bike , some schoolboys stopped to ask us lots of questions about the bike …

We arrived in La Esperanza around 1:30 pm and stopped in the central park to get WiFi so we could find out a good hotel. Turned out we were staring right at it.After booking in and parking the bike we went for a walk in the town. One street we …