Ephemerica

Finally, the photos have arrived! Go check them out in the photo gallery.

Posted by Matthew on October 15th, 2007 | Filed under: General, Costa Rica | 5 Comments »

Our new bike/bus strategy has been working well, though not exactly as planned. The last segment of Central America began by bussing out of San Jose and the Central Valley to the Carribbean coast and the city of Limon from where we planned to ride down the coast to Panama, cross the continental divide and […]

Posted by cindy on August 18th, 2007 | Filed under: Costa Rica, Panama | 1 Comment »

We posted some picture from Costa Rica for y’all, taken with the new camera! Hope you like them. They can be seen in the photo gallery here.

Posted by Matthew on August 14th, 2007 | Filed under: Costa Rica | No Comments »

After our last post, we left our bikes and extra baggage with our friends in Heredia and headed to the village of Parismina on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. We had to take two buses and a boat to get there;the second bus drove us through two large Del Monte banana plantations (the bus […]

Posted by Matthew on August 2nd, 2007 | Filed under: Costa Rica | 1 Comment »

In our quest to get back on our feet and return to our travels, we needed some local help, so we contacted some people through CouchSurfing and asked to stay with them. We got a response from a friendly couple, Trevor (from Nebraska) and Mariana (from Argentina). They live in Heredia (just outside San Jose), […]

Posted by Matthew on July 20th, 2007 | Filed under: Costa Rica | 13 Comments »

This is a post that I would hoped we wouldn´t have to write. We were robbed on July 5th on our way from Rivas, Nicaragua to the Costa Rica border. We are both okay, but our bikes are a lot lighter.
The short version is that 3 guys came out onto the road and blocked our […]

Posted by cindy on July 8th, 2007 | Filed under: Nicaragua, Costa Rica | 7 Comments »