After getting my fill of the odd pharmacy filled town of Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador, I began my trip across the small country, with the goal of making it to Antigua, Guatemala that night. Before long, the skies began to darken. Not too long after, it started raining. It would rain on...
Just as I was leaving the outskirts of Leon, Nicaragua, on my way to the Honduran border, a police officer started motioning for me to pull over. I was already a bit worked up over the reports of what I could expect later that day, and had no interest in the nonsense beginning any...
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America, and is sometimes called La Tierra de Lagos y Volcanes, which translates to: The Land of Lakes and Volcanoes. Since its independence from Spain, Nicaragua has undergone periods of political unrest, military intervention on behalf of the United States, a dictatorship and fiscal...
After leaving Panama’s Bocas del Toro, I rode through increasingly hot and humid territory, coinciding with less and less gringo influence. Gradually, I returned to the Latin America that I loved. The one where I was usually lost, with no road signs and frequent large holes in the road. In towns, there were many...
