I had never heard of Dr Ropata before I came to Guatemala and now I can’t get away from the comments. Dave was the first to let us know about this piece of NZ TV history. It even has a facebook page. We have had a few days of cutting out the miles, Nicaragua, Honduras, […]
We are on the road to Neuve Ocotepeque and have to get across a mountainous divide, but the GPS and map have a line that should indicate a road. We turn off the ribbon of seal onto corrugations and ruts, pea gravel on top of hard clay and huge boulders imbedded in the clay from […]
These steel covers must be a very sought after commodity as there are so many missing. I didn’t realise how many there are until they were gone, and you peer 5m down into the depths of infrastructure as you drive by. Would they be used as BBQ plates or some other use? Trucks cars and […]
We lost two days with Gareth’s bike issue. It was a very frustrating day waiting for a truck that was due at 9am and then at 2 we cancelled as it was still two hours away and got it on a local truck down to the Harley dealer in Managua. This is the only guy […]
Gareth’s trusty steed wouldn’t restart yesterday morning after a fuel stop. We had only got to the outskirts of Leon. All easy fix-it options were covered off. The kill switches were checked but as the starter motor still turned – not them. Bike immobilising alarm was checked and seemed normal. Most of my day was […]
As we were frying on the road, yesterday, I glance across yet another huge Nicaraguan lake and see two more perfect volcanic cones. Wisps of smoke rising from the tops of these ones too. We have seen lots of volcanos and there are at least 11 in this small country of about 8 million folk. […]
Revenge is sweet and so when I found a south American snake, black on the top and yellow on the under-side I thought of my dear friend, David Wallace. Not the Dave Wallace that is on the trip with us but another one, and both dairy farmers. Anyway a snake bit my mate David Wallace […]
Thank God for GPS technology as the many unmarked corners in the Costa Rica countryside would have us well and truly lost, but with the mountain lodge in our destination we wound on through 35 degree valleys and up the cooler lush hillsides. The last 15 kms were bone jarring pot-holes and rocky ruts, then […]
We were on the road shortly after first light and found a local food place where we got coffee and boiled eggs ,,, we wondered just how bad the bridge could be. We had read blogs about this bridge with one biker in hospital and another falling twice on it. Another biker told Gareth we […]
After a dip in the Pacific Ocean and watching the sun go down clutching a cold beer we wondered how so few food and accommodation places got it right. This one with location, location,,,,,,, is semi derelict, the woman is surly and the food marginal. Open sewers and rubbish don’t seem to discourage the locals […]
