Tuesday, January 6 Not desiring to linger in Cartago, we rose early, had our free breakfast, and packed the bikes. Although they had been behind a fence topped with razor wire, they were visible from the street so we slept poorly, waking several times to check on the bikes. We headed back out of town […]
Wednesday, January 7 We woke up around 9 am and did yoga on the observation deck above the hotel grounds overlooking the ocean. The hotel had free breakfast that was quite delicious with fresh fruit and tasty bread from the local French baker. Our plan for the day was to spend an afternoon on the […]
Thursday, January 8 We followed our standard border crossing day plan and rose early. We ate breakfast and said farewell to the beautiful Costa Rican ocean view. Following up on the tip about a small town border crossing, I researched on ADV and found a great guide to finding your way to Rio Sereno. We […]
Saturday, January 10 Today we planned on going to the airport to find out about shipping the bikes to South America. In reading other riders’ reports we were hoping to ship and fly to Medellin, Colombia by using Copa Airlines. On the way to the airport we stopped by Panama Bikers, a custom Harley shop […]
Thursday, January 22nd Now that Panama is posted, we’re making good progress towards getting caught up on our writing. We had a great time in Colombia that I’m half way through writing. We have decided to interrupt our once in a lifetime journey to take another once in a lifetime opportunity. We’re taking advantage of […]
Thursday, January 15 We awoke feeling damp, as our hotel air conditioner wouldn’t even have qualified as a swamp cooler. It was cooler and less humid in the open air hallway. We sampled the breakfast buffet, packed our things and headed to the airport in a state of anticipation. We were finally clearing North & […]
Friday, January 16 We slept in until 9, enjoying the plush bed. Our first order of business for the day was finding some maps of Colombia and possibly a guide book. Lew had drawn us a map showing how to get to two book stores, which would likely have maps. By the time we had […]
Saturday, January 17 We woke up around 10 am, feeling a bit beat up from last night’s fun at Andre’s. After breakfast we decided to visit the Salt Cathedral, a tourist destination that Lew recommended, about 30 km outside of Bogota. Jeffrey had a day off from school and was hanging around out at home […]
Sunday, January 18 Despite the party the night before, we managed to get up early and be ready to head out by 8:30. We felt bad about waking up Lew and Jennifer to say goodbye, as they’d been up quite late, but it would have been rude to miss a proper farewell. We thanked them […]
Monday, January 19 We slept well and woke up early. We ate a Mexico style convenient store breakfast of coffee, some yogurt, and a granola bar. Since it was still raining, we weren’t very enthusiastic about touring the Cafe Zone, as beautiful as it was. We were aiming for a long day of riding with […]