Friday, January 2 By the morning of the fourth day in Granada we were VERY ready to hit the road. After breakfast at the hotel, we loaded up the bikes and were on our way to the border crossing with Costa Rica. We took the Interamericana all the way down. Mostly an uneventful ride apart […]
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Knowing it was a short ride down to Granada, we had a leisurely morning and had a big breakfast at the Miraflores co-op cafe from the day before. They had great batidos (like smoothies except without added sugars). We packed up the bikes and were on our way. The ride down […]
Monday, December 29 We arose without a firm plan for the day. The holidays had introduced an artificially slow pace in our journey. We wanted to be in a city for New Year’s Eve, and since the rest of the world was also on vacation during these weeks, we had to make reservations in advance […]
Sunday, December 28 Our plan for the day was to ride back about 10 km to the Somoto Canyon which was the local nature attraction. Mario L. gave us a recommendation for a local guide named Ballardo (pronounced Ba-yardo). We were to try and find him in the village for a possible hike to the […]