A really bad day

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 […]

Ring of Fire

To the north of the city of Leon is a string of 10 volcanos which rise up out of seemingly nowhere from the flat coastal plain. The youngest of the volcanoes is Cerro Negro, which is only about 150 years old and around 700 meters tall. It is also covered in black rock and shale […]

More milestones en route to Nicaragua

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 […]