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Are now up in the photo gallery.

Filed under: Honduras on June 29th, 2007 | No Comments »

We just passed a couple of important milestones in our trip—4000 km biked and 150 days on the road! Speaking of the road, with the exception of our little stretch of unpaved road that we encountered on route to La Esperanza, the roads here have been surprisingly good, meaning that the pavement is smooth and [...]

Filed under: Honduras, Nicaragua on June 19th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

We posted a couple of little movies on our YouTube page. One is a train of leaf-cutter ants working hard in the forest. The other is of some flooding that occurred in downtown Tegucigalpa after a one-hour rain storm that began just as we were arriving in town at our hotel a couple of days [...]

Filed under: Honduras, Movies on June 16th, 2007 | No Comments »

We’ve noticed so far in Honduras (and sometimes in Guatemala, too) that it’s much more common as a one-word greeting to use “Adios!” rather than “Hola!” At first, I was a bit unsure as to whether it was supposed to be somewhat disparaging, as if to say “Scram!”, but now, after having tried it myself [...]

Filed under: Honduras on June 12th, 2007 | No Comments »