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One hit wonder….. Cabanas Canas Castillos is the only place we visited in Costa Rica and we were perfectly satisfied with this decision. I feel slightly bad because Kevin has never been to the country before and I myself had previously visited the jungle, zip lined with monkeys, and hiked some volcanoes thus I knowContinue reading “Costa Rica”

This is my Nicaragua. This is the place where you show up with the t-shirt on your back. You kick off your shoes to go barefoot and two months later ask what day it is and consider the time left on your Visa and then contemplate if you stay one more day or get yourContinue reading “Popoyo”

Remote and solar powered lodge which you have to take a boat and then catch a horse carriage ride to access the huts and dorms…check. In the spirit of my extreme penny pinching I had Kevin organize and make sure the beach trip which was included in the volcano boarding could serve as our transportationContinue reading “Surfing Turtle Lodge”

Before I begin to explain one of our longest travel days….from San Jose Laguana Guatemala to Santa Ana, El Salvador in one days travel is not recommend. The alarm went off, it was 4am and we walked our bikes up hill to the local bus stop. I thought we would be the only foreigners crazyContinue reading “Santa Ana”

Pardon my language and any kid under 18 should not read this post! Wr woke up at the warm showers host in Santa Tecla and I felt a little better. Maybe it was because I barely ate anything or had opened the flood gates in the toilet and had nothing left in me. We tookContinue reading “El Tunco”

The ride began with some uphill battles I stopped to tell Kevin my brakes were rubbing and he brought me back to earth… we just hadn’t biked in a while and hiked yesterday and his load felt heavier than ever as well. So in reality my bike just felt heavy and my brakes were fine.Continue reading “Santa Tecla”

The bus arrived just as the sun set and Kevin let me lead. I had looked up two hostals with great reviews in the city of Leon as it wasn’t feasible to camp within the city limits and we had seen photos of people boarding down a volcano and we just had to see forContinue reading “Cerro Negro”

It may look innocent from afar but cobblestone will pop your chain off your bike resulting in your hands stained black for the rest of the day. We bumped our way into the city of ruins and stopped to take a picture by one of the old buildings and infamous arch. As we passed throughContinue reading “Antigua”

My eyes burned from exhaust and smoke coming off the street vendors grills. We were like elephants trampling through a street market with only enough space to allow small children to walk through comfortably. That morning we had decided to take a chance and reach out by WhatsApp to a warm showers host with greatContinue reading “Guatemala City”

Do we risk it? Do we let the break cool and then try descending the mountain again to get to Antigua? I grabbed my carrot and started to just enjoy the view because we weren’t going anywhere fast today. Then a man offered us shade and let us store our bikes inside his gate. AsContinue reading “Somewhere In-Between”