Into the Darien

January 25, 2010 Last night Igor Skyped me to see where I was at (we’d met in Honduras New Year’s Day and rode together with Mario). Turned out he was…

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Entering Panama

January 23, 2010 I got an early start, but not too early since I’d been advised the border offices did not open until 8:30 am. The Costa Rican side was…

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My Short tour of Costa Rica

January 18-19, 2010 Costa Rica is so Americanized they’ll accept US Dollars or Colones. $1 = ~550 colones It was some strange math to wrap my brain around. <> The…

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On to Costa Rica

January 15, 2009 Welcome to Gringo Costa Rica I left Granada early, as usual, and figured it would take me about two hours to get to the border. Leaving Granada…

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Brian (Four Days in Granada)

[January 13-14-15: Nicaragua] [yes, I am going back in time trying to get caught up on the blog] I was hot. I’d ridden through some invisible curtain and the temps…

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My Baby is all Bound Up…

January 28, 2010 It’s weird…I really miss my bike. She’s all bound up and ready to fly to Bogota. My flight is at 11:00 today (Thurs 1/18/10). Bye, sweetie, see…

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Nicaragua (II)

Tuesday January 12th [Well, I just spent an hour on this post and realized I am repeating myself…I will leave it because it represents a LOT of work!] Luckily this…

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