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Costa Rica : Aug 2016
The one with all the hand writing… [The hostel I’m staying in has a laptop for use by guests, yay! so I’m finishing this post using it] Another ‘rest’ day has turned into a mini side-adventure, and I’m pretty wiped by the time I get back to the hostel. I chat with a couple of
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Nicaragua : Aug 2016
It’s been close to for a long time, but my Bluetooth keyboard is now officially un-usable, what with so many nonfunctioning keys, meaning the remainder of my blosts will be swiped rather than typed. Seems fitting, as most of the things that I use regularly seem to be falling apart as I approach the end
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El Salvador & Honduras : Aug 2016
El Salvador and Honduras have reputations for being dangerous and worth avoiding. Meanwhile, travelling solo by bicycle, one is obviously vulnerable to anybody or group that decides they’d like to take your bike and whatever you have in the bags hanging all over it. This has been in the back of my mind since the
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Guatemala : Tallisman → Antigua : July 2016
Looking at a map, weighing various biking routes, it can be hard to truly realize the magnitude of what you’re committing yourself to. As it was, for me, the previous morning in Tapachula, Mexico, a dozen km from the Guatemalan border, trying to decide between hugging the coast and crossing via the lowlands, or winding
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Mexico : Oaxaca → Guatemala : July 2016
It can be draining to be a solo traveller who stands out distinctly from the locals. I’ve had some taste of what it must be like to be a celebrity; gawked at by nearly everyone, and continuously approached by maybe 5% of these strangers, asking the same things over and over and over again.
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Mexico : Mexico City → Oaxaca : July 2016
When we’re very young, all experiences are profoundly new, and limit expanding. As we get older, this is decreasingly so. Our ability to experience becomes more sophisticated, and correspondingly the experiences that we can consider limit expanding become more elusive. At some point, the basic experience becomes insufficient to expand limits and we use the
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Mexico : Bosque Villiage → Mexico City : July 2016
I leave Bosque Village and grab some food from a stall in the nearby town of Erongacuario, then continue on another 20km to Patzcuaro, stopping in to check out the Temple of Santa Muerte. It’s been a relatively short ride, but I’m feeling pretty low energy and strongly considering calling it a day when it
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Mexico : Guadalajara → Bosque Village : June 2016
I take a day to see the sights of Guadalajara, which is by some measures the second largest city in Mexico, but has a core that’s easy to cover by bicycle and contains most all of the notable museums and cathedrals. So, that’s what I do. Standard tourist stuff. I took some 3D photos which
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Mexico : Puerto Vallarta → Guadalajara : June 2016
I spend a down day in Puerto Vallarta: Walk the Malecon, happen upon the cap hill (gay) neighborhood and have brunch, then buy $1.50 flip flops. I take an awesome afternoon nap, then a long food-walk with the new flip flops (mixed results), then I happen to catch the end of game 7 of the
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Mexico : San Blas → Puerto Vallarta : June 2016
I spend the day in San Blas, eating from 5 different places and taking a surf lesson from Stoner’s surf school. My instructor is not the longboard champion that is advertised (and runs the place and speaks english fairly fluently), but a young guy that speaks little english. All the same, the lesson is well
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